Bossy Lobster

A blog by Danny Hermes; musing on tech, mathematics, etc.

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Trigonometry and Nested Radicals

Early last month, I was chatting with one of my officemates about a curious problem I had studied in high school. I hadn't written any of the results down, so much of the discussion involved me rediscovering the results and proving them with much more powerful tools than I once …