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Title: Cliff Puzzle 18: Difficult Nested Roots
From: cliff@watson.ibm.com

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Consider the following nested set of square roots.

.eq ? = sqrt <1 + G sqrt <1+(G+1) sqrt < 1 + ... >>>

Here, G indicates "Googol" or  10**100.
The "<" and ">" symbols indicate where the beginning and ends of the
the nested roots.

1. What is the value for in this infinite set of nested roots.
2. What is the next term under the root?

Hint:
In 1911, the famous mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan posed the
following question (#298) in a new mathematical journal called the
:Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.

.eq ? = sqrt <1 + 2 sqrt <1+3 sqrt <1 + ... >>>