Comment on Flaky: datatypes for real world quantitiesparentComments−betterunix13y"You can't simplify this"I have learned to be careful about making such claims.http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NestedRadical.html−darkmighty13yYea but simplifications like this are probably non-computable, even when possible, and hard to do in any case.−blackhole13yWrong, that isn't what this is. This isn't a nested radical to infinite terms, it's a nested radical to n terms. Thus, it cannot be simplified.
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"You can't simplify this"
I have learned to be careful about making such claims.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NestedRadical.html
Yea but simplifications like this are probably non-computable, even when possible, and hard to do in any case.
Wrong, that isn't what this is. This isn't a nested radical to infinite terms, it's a nested radical to n terms. Thus, it cannot be simplified.