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How do I assign solutions of an equation to a variable?

a = solve(1-z-z^2==0,z)[0] has the result of a being 'z=-1/2*sqrt(5)-1/2'

But I would like to have just a = '-1/2*sqrt(5)-1/2'

How do I convert the expression to a number?

Thanks!