I love Ramanujan. He was an amazing person. In 1911 he posed the nested radical problem shown below (or left) in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. When he didn't receive a response he solved it himself.

A few of my notes are here: https://davidmeyer.github.io/qc/nested_radicals.pdf

The LaTeX source is here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/qwhvvhrzrgct

As always, questions/comments/corrections/* greatly appreciated.

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Every time I see this I have the same reaction: It is amazing how clever Ramanujan was.

My brief notes are here: https://davidmeyer.github.io/qc/nested_radicals.pdf. The LaTeX source is here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/qwhvvhrzrgct.

As always, questions/comments/corrections/* greatly appreciated.

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