CTK Insights

CSIRO Education, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute and the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations distribute a useful and interesting newsletter. The newsletter consists usually of a main article and several small problems. This time, the main article dealt with Preferential voting. Towards the end there appeared a claim to the effect that [...]

Elsewhere we proved that the sequence (1) is convergent to 2. With this in mind, it is possible and meaningful to shorten the description of this fact to   Expressions like that serve an example of infinite nested radicals. They are realized in terms of limits, if those exist, and are understood as the shorthand [...]