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Largest Roots of Cubic Polynomials

 Published on Saturday, 29th October 2011, 01:00 pm; Solved by 722;
Difficulty: Level 30 [78%]

Problem 356

Let $a_n$ be the largest real root of a polynomial $g(x) = x^3 - 2^n \cdot x^2 + n$.
For example, $a_2 = 3.86619826\cdots$

Find the last eight digits of $\sum \limits_{i = 1}^{30} \lfloor a_i^{987654321} \rfloor$.

Note: $\lfloor a \rfloor$ represents the floor function.



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