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Midpoints on square sequence

Construction:

Starting with the vertices of a square, we construct further points as follows:
  • is the midpoint of ,
  • is the midpoint of ,
  • is the midpoint of , and so on.
The polygonal spiral path approaches a point inside the square, as shown in the animation below. You can pause the animation and activate the box Value to analyse the values of .
1. If the coordinates of are , show that and find a similar equation for the -coordinates. 2. Find the coordinates of .