Pythagorean Spiral (Iteration of Square Roots)
2020-06-10 19:26
This example demonstrates the geometric construction of the Pythagorean spiral (Spiral of Theodorus) using the Pythagorean theorem. Utilizing GeoGebra's IterationList and Sequence commands, it starts with an initial right triangle and iteratively builds new right triangles using the previous hypotenuse as a leg. This visually illustrates the iterative lengths of square roots (e.g., √2, √3, √4...)
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