OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
This root is also the sixth smallest of the Pisot numbers.
LINKS
Iain Fox, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pisot Number
Wikipedia, Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number
EXAMPLE
1.53415774491426691543597007610937570188254503851659513536853186300806302321...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[ Solve[ x^5 - x^3 - x^2 - x - 1 == 0, x, WorkingPrecision -> 111][[-1, 1, 2]], 10, 111][[1]] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Nov 04 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) solve(x=1, 2, x^5 - x^3 - x^2 - x - 1) \\ Michel Marcus, Oct 13 2017
(PARI) default(realprecision, 20080); x=solve(x=1, 2, x^5 - x^3 - x^2 - x - 1); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b293509.txt", n, " ", d)); \\ Iain Fox, Oct 23 2017
(PARI) polrootsreal(x^5 - x^3 - x^2 - x - 1)[1] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 04 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
cons,nonn
AUTHOR
Iain Fox, Oct 11 2017
STATUS
approved