How to plot the spiral of Theodorus

1 · John Cook · Aug. 4, 2019, 11:16 p.m.
You may have seen the spiral of Theodorus. It sticks a sequence of right triangles together to make a sort of spiral. Each triangle has a short side of length 1, and the hypotenuse of each triangle becomes the long leg of the next triangle as shown below. How would you plot this spiral? At […]...