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- From: dennis@cadkey.com (Dennis Paul Himes)
- Subject: Re: The golden number
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.194528.19855@cadkey.com>
- Organization: cadkey
- References: <BzF76u.B7x@unccsun.uncc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:45:28 GMT
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- In article <BzF76u.B7x@unccsun.uncc.edu> sbardhan@uncc.edu writes:
- >Will someone start discussing about it. I'm not sure about its properties.
- >
-
- If you mean the golden ratio, it is .5 + .5 * (5^.5). It has the
- property that if the ratio between the length and width of a rectangle is
- the golden ratio and a square whose side is equal to the length of that
- rectangle is joined to it, then the new rectangles' length and width will
- also have the golden ratio.
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