Proving the existence of the nth root by induction

2008/05/21 by Alvaro H. Salas S, S, Alvaro H. Salas
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #General Mathematics (math.GM) #math.GM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0805.3303

arxiv created 2008/05/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

In this paper we prove by induction on n that any positive real number has nth root.

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