To: tdadams
Never heard of the "Golden Mean" (# 16 above), but it might be another name for Fibonacci's number, derived from Fibonacci's sequence.
The sequence is 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34.... (Each number is the sum of the two previous numbers in the sequence).
Divide any number in the sequence by its predecessor, and you get a number around 1.618 - the higher you go, the close you get to this magic number.
6 posted on
07/08/2003 6:05:23 AM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
Never heard of the "Golden Mean" (# 16 above), but it might be another name for Fibonacci's number, derived from Fibonacci's sequence. The sequence is 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34.... (Each number is the sum of the two previous numbers in the sequence). Divide any number in the sequence by its predecessor, and you get a number around 1.618 - the higher you go, the close you get to this magic number.Oh Yeah!!! (???)
10 posted on
07/08/2003 6:34:37 AM PDT by
bedolido
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To: Izzy Dunne
Re: Golden Mean
a/b=b/a+b
12 posted on
07/08/2003 6:48:43 AM PDT by
orchid
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To: Izzy Dunne
If you take a rectangle with a height of 1 and a width of 1.618 and chop in in two so that one part is a square (height 1 and width 1), the other part will have a height of 1 and a width of 0.618. This has the same ratio of height to width as the original rectangle had of width to height.
The actual golden ratio is 0.5 * (1 + sqrt(5)).
15 posted on
07/08/2003 6:57:14 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
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To: Izzy Dunne
Actually, you can start with any two real numbers, provided they are not both zero.
19 posted on
07/08/2003 7:09:34 AM PDT by
Sarastro
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