Approximation of the golden ratio using exponential

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Claim :

$$\left(1+e^{-1}\right)^{3}\cdot\left(1-e^{-1}\right)-\frac{\left(\sqrt{5}+1\right)}{2}<0$$



I found it accidentaly using Desmos .It's quite good as approximation of the golden ratio.

Some thought :

I recall that :

$$e^x=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{x^n}{n!}$$

And we can also use the Binet's formula to get a good approximation of $\phi$ using the $n$ th root .



Edit :

A related result :

Let :

$$f\left(x\right)=\left(x+1\right)^{3}\left(1-x\right)-x-\frac{5}{4}$$

Then :

$$f\left(e^{-1}\right)<0\quad (1)$$

And :

$$f\left(\frac{\left(\sqrt{3}-1\right)}{2}\right)=0\quad(2)$$

Edit after the comment :

We have from $(1)$ and $(2)$ (the extrema is also a root) :

$$\left(1+e^{-1}\right)^{3}\cdot\left(1-e^{-1}\right)<e^{-1}+1.25$$

Now using :

Let :

$$I_n(x)=e^x-\sum_{i=0}^{n}\frac{x^i}{i!}$$

Then we have as $|x|\leq 1$ :

$$|I_n(x)|\leq \frac{1}{(n+1)!}\left(1+\frac{2}{n+1}\right)$$

And using again the Binet's formula the result follows .



Last edit : An inequality for the fun !

$$\left(1-\left(\left(-\frac{1}{2e-2}\right)\cdot e^{-1}+\left(\frac{1}{2e-2}+1\right)\cdot\left(\frac{\left(\sqrt{3}-1\right)}{2}\right)\right)\right)\left(1+\frac{\left(\sqrt{3}-1\right)}{2}\right)^{e}\left(1+e^{-1}\right)^{\left(3-e\right)}-\frac{\left(\sqrt{5}+1\right)}{2}<0$$




Question :

How to show it by hand ?

Thanks in advance .