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A060006 Decimal expansion of real root of x^3-x-1. +0
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1, 3, 2, 4, 7, 1, 7, 9, 5, 7, 2, 4, 4, 7, 4, 6, 0, 2, 5, 9, 6, 0, 9, 0, 8, 8, 5, 4, 4, 7, 8, 0, 9, 7, 3, 4, 0, 7, 3, 4, 4, 0, 4, 0, 5, 6, 9, 0, 1, 7, 3, 3, 3, 6, 4, 5, 3, 4, 0, 1, 5, 0, 5, 0, 3, 0, 2, 8, 2, 7, 8, 5, 1, 2, 4, 5, 5, 4, 7, 5, 9, 4, 0, 5, 4, 6, 9, 9, 3, 4, 7, 9, 8, 1, 7, 8, 7, 2, 8, 0, 3, 2, 9, 9, 1 (list; cons; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Has been also called the silver number, also the plastic number.

This is the smallest Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number, v_3. In general v_n is the smallest positive real solution to the equation (v_n)^n = v_n + 1.

REFERENCES

S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, Section 1.2.2.

M. J. Gazale, Gnomon. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999, see Chap. VII.

Ian Stewart, Tales of a neglected number, Scientific American, No. 6, 1966, pp. 92-93.

LINKS

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n=1,...,20000

S. Plouffe, Smallest Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number to 50000 digits

S. Plouffe, The Smallest Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number

F. Rothelius, Formulae

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pisot Number

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Plastic Constant

Wikipedia, Plastic number

FORMULA

Another formula: ((1/2)+((1/6)*sqrt(23/3)))^(1/3) + ((1/2)-((1/6)*sqrt(23/3)))^(1/3) [From Eric Desbiaux (moongerms(AT)wanadoo.fr), Oct 17 2008]

(1/2+sqrt(23/108))^(1/3) + (1/2-sqrt(23/108))^(1/3) - Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), May 22 2003

CubeRoot(1 + CubeRoot(1 + CubeRoot(1 + CubeRoot(1 + ...)))) - Gerald McGarvey (Gerald.McGarvey(AT)comcast.net), Nov 26 2004

sqrt(1+1/sqrt(1+1/sqrt(1+1/sqrt(1+...)))) - Gerald McGarvey (gerald.mcgarvey(AT)comcast.net), Mar 18 2006

EXAMPLE

1.32471795724474602596090885447809734...

MATHEMATICA

RealDigits[ Solve[x^3 - x - 1 == 0, x][[1, 1, 2]], 10, 111][[1]] [From Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Sep 30 2009]

PROGRAM

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 20080); x=solve(x=1, 2, x^3 - x - 1); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b060006.txt", n, " ", d)); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jul 01 2009]

CROSSREFS

v_2 = A001622. A072117 gives continued fraction.

Cf. A006888, A051016, A051017, A084252.

Sequence in context: A039915 A085346 A121861 this_sequence A123097 A134571 A054086

Adjacent sequences: A060003 A060004 A060005 this_sequence A060007 A060008 A060009

KEYWORD

cons,nice,nonn

AUTHOR

Fabian Rothelius (fabian.rothelius(AT)telia.com), Mar 14 2001

EXTENSIONS

Edited and extended by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Aug 03 2002

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