OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Ramanujan's question 1076 (i), see Berndt and Rankin in References: Show that (7*20^(1/3)-19)^(1/6) = (5/3)^(1/3)-(2/3)^(1/3).
REFERENCES
B. C. Berndt and R. A. Rankin, Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys, American Mathematical Society, 2001, ISBN 0-8218-2624-7, page 222 (JIMS 11, page 199).
Susan Landau, "Simplification of nested radicals." SIAM Journal on Computing 21.1 (1992): 85-110. See page 85. [Do not confuse this paper with the short FOCS conference paper with the same title, which is only a few pages long.]
S. Ramanujan, Coll. Papers, Chelsea, 1962, page 334, Question 1076
EXAMPLE
0.31205063676038873295483111393230510491288642292526830038794456442743462...
MAPLE
evalf((7*20^(1/3)-19)^(1/6)); # Muniru A Asiru, Aug 28 2018
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[Surd[7 Surd[20, 3]-19, 6], 10, 120][[1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 07 2021 *)
PROG
(PARI) (7*20^(1/3)-19)^(1/6)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Hugo Pfoertner, Aug 28 2018
STATUS
approved