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The Golden Apple: Use of the Perfect Ratio

  
  
  
  
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"Think of any two numbers. Make a third by adding the first and second, a fourth by adding the second and third, and so on. When you have written down about 20 numbers, calculate the ratio of the last to the second from last. The answer should be close to 1.6180339887..." (Marcus Chown - The Guardian).

Some call it the Golden Number, some the divine proportion, and even the most irrational number. Whatever name it goes by, scientists and mathematicians all agree that the number "phi", or 1.618..., in relation to 1 is one of the most intriguing anomalies in the natural and mathematic world.

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