OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
This root is also the ninth smallest of the Pisot numbers.
The ratio of successive terms of A122115 converges to this number.
LINKS
Iain Fox, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000
Hans Walser, Funktionenfolge [in German]
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pisot Number.
Wikipedia, Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number
EXAMPLE
1.570147312196054362910665...
MATHEMATICA
First@ RealDigits[Root[#^5 - #^4 - #^2 - 1 &, 1], 10, 87] (* Michael De Vlieger, Oct 23 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) solve(x=1, 2, x^5 - x^4 - x^2 - 1) \\ Michel Marcus, Oct 11 2017
(PARI) default(realprecision, 20080); x=solve(x=1, 2, x^5 - x^4 - x^2 - 1); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b293506.txt", n, " ", d));
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
cons,nonn
AUTHOR
Iain Fox, Oct 10 2017
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Andrey Zabolotskiy, Oct 12 2017
STATUS
approved