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A364931
Decimal expansion of the solution to 1 / (1 + e^(-x)) = x.
0
6, 5, 9, 0, 4, 6, 0, 6, 8, 4, 0, 7, 4, 0, 6, 6, 6, 0, 9, 8, 4, 3, 8, 6, 4, 9, 5, 9, 2, 8, 8, 6, 7, 5, 5, 1, 6, 9, 8, 0, 9, 0, 3, 3, 0, 3, 5, 7, 1, 1, 5, 1, 8, 8, 4, 8, 9, 2, 9, 4, 6, 3, 0, 8, 0, 4, 2, 2, 4, 1, 1, 3, 0, 4, 2, 4, 2, 9, 7, 5, 7, 5, 7, 9, 0, 3, 4, 7, 3, 5, 6, 4, 8, 2, 8, 2, 0, 1, 0, 5
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Fixed point of sigmoid (standard logistic function) as well as its inverse (logit).
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Sigmoid Function.
Wikipedia, Logistic Function.
EXAMPLE
0.6590460684074066...
MAPLE
Digits:=100: fsolve(1/(1+exp(-x))-x, x);
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[FindRoot[1/(1+Exp[-x])-x, {x, 0.6}, WorkingPrecision -> 100][[1, 2]], 10, 100][[1]]
PROG
(PARI) default(realprecision, 100); solve(x=0.4, 0.7, 1/(1+exp(-x))-x)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A272696 A048236 A193719 * A195700 A275110 A011284
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Michal Paulovic, Aug 13 2023
STATUS
approved