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A228777
Decimal expansion of the third smallest Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number.
9
1, 4, 4, 3, 2, 6, 8, 7, 9, 1, 2, 7, 0, 3, 7, 3, 1, 0, 7, 6, 2, 8, 1, 2, 7, 6, 0, 7, 3, 8, 6, 9, 1, 1, 6, 0, 4, 6, 7, 6, 0, 1, 1, 9, 6, 6, 6, 5, 4, 5, 7, 1, 5, 9, 8, 4, 0, 9, 2, 3, 3, 7, 9, 3, 6, 2, 3, 7, 8, 4, 8, 3, 7, 8, 7, 4, 1, 8, 9, 0, 5, 0, 0, 3, 7, 5, 9, 0, 0, 7
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
Iain Fox, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000 (first 1000 terms from Vincenzo Librandi).
Wikipedia, Pisot number
FORMULA
A root of x^5-x^4-x^3+x^2-1.
EXAMPLE
1.443268791270373107628127607386...
MAPLE
fsolve(x^5-x^4-x^3+x^2-1, x, 1.4..1.5) ;
MATHEMATICA
Root[Function[x, x^5-x^4-x^3+x^2-1], 1] // RealDigits[#, 10, 90]& // First (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 20 2014 *)
PROG
(PARI) default(realprecision, 20080); x=solve(x=1, 2, x^5 - x^4 - x^3 + x^2 - 1); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b228777.txt", n, " ", d)); \\ Iain Fox, Oct 23 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
R. J. Mathar, Sep 04 2013
STATUS
approved