(June 6, 2011 at 5:39 pm)Zenith Wrote: Also, have you heard about the golden ratio?I read a really great book on the golden ratio and thing I found the most fascinating was that if you look at the Fibonacci sequence - {0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...} - if you take any value in the sequence n and divide it by the previous value in the sequence or n/(n-1), this value approaches the golden ratio the further down the sequence you go.
Quote:the golden ratio, a favorite of mystical mathematicians and represented by the Greek letter Phi: φ. This is the proportion of a piece of paper such that if you cut a square-sized piece from one end, the remaining piece is in the same proportions as the original.The ratio φ = (1+√5)/2 = 1.618...
Another interesting thing about φ is that φ = 1/(φ - 1) (wow!)
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