• WELCOME
  • parkrun STATS
  • PUZZLE of the WEEK
  • SOLUTIONS
  • PUZZLE BOOKS
  • STUFF
Menu

elliottline.com

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number

Your Custom Text Here

elliottline.com

  • WELCOME
  • parkrun STATS
  • PUZZLE of the WEEK
  • SOLUTIONS
  • PUZZLE BOOKS
  • STUFF

Puzzle of the Week #237 - Right Angled Triangle Spiral

January 17, 2020 Elliott Line

I have begun to construct a spiral of right-angles triangles thus:

The first triangle has legs both equal to 1.

Each subsequent triangle uses the hypotenuse of the previous triangle as one leg and a new line of length 1 as the other leg.

Every time the length of a spoke happens to be an exact whole number, I’ve marked it in red. I happened to notice that the angular distances between the red spokes are of a similar size.

My question is this: is it converging, and if so, to what?

← Puzzle of the Week #238 - Circle BoxPuzzle of the Week #236 - Zigzag →

Powered by Squarespace