Geometry problem

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Start with an angle 60 & bisect it,then bisect the lower 30 angle,then the upper 15 angle and so on always alternating between the upper and the lower of previous two angles constructed.This process approaches a limiting line that divides the original angle into two angles.The measure of the smaller angle is?

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It's a disguised series problem! It looks like our nth term would be 60/2^n

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Yes , but the nth term  go to zero when n go to infinity , so the angle is 0 grade , i guess.

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Yes, that answer is "valid" (particularly since it's almost meaningless to talk of an angle at 0 degrees, we may as well say it becomes a line), assuming limits are justified, etc. An infinitesimal answer would also be permissible