Convergence of a Recursive Sequence

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The limit of the sequence , or equivalently , satisfies the equation . The solutions are . In the graphic we show that the limit is the golden ratio .

Contributed by: Soledad María Sáez Martínez and Félix Martínez de la Rosa (March 2011)
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