The Repeated Power Function

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Leonhard Euler proved that the function , where
appears
times, approaches a limit
for
as
. (The red points indicate the limits at the endpoints of the interval of convergence.) This Demonstration shows the values of
for
to
. You can zoom in to see the limits at
and
. The expression bifurcates at the lower endpoint (
) with
. The sequence
converges to 1 as
from above while
converges to 0. Beyond the upper endpoint (
) the expression rapidly grows to infinity.
Contributed by: Bill Collins (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Published: March 7 2011