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Exercise 1.35

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Show that the golden ratio φ (section 1.2.2) is a fixed point of the transformation x → 1 + 1/x, and use this fact to compute φ by means of the fixed-point procedure.

Corresponding Section: 
1.3.3 Procedures as General Methods

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