The Golden Ratio By : Kaavya.K In mathematics and the arts‚ two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant‚ approximately 1.6180339887. Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section and golden mean. Other terms encountered include extreme and mean ratio‚ medial section‚ divine
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his time‚he did not travel to other countries‚ except one‚ and that the city of Alexandria in Egypt‚ where at the famous institution‚Musaeum of Alexandria‚he consorted with famous scientists like Conon the Samian‚Dositheos‚Eratosthenes of Cyrene and others with whom he kept regular contact with‚by sending his work to them and asking for their opinion before it was published. The exact time of his stay in Alexandria can only be approximately identified‚and that between 250-240 bc. During his stay
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viewed Bessus as a usurper to the Achaemenid throne‚ and set out to defeat him. This campaign‚ initially against Bessus‚ turned into a grand tour of central Asia‚ with Alexander founding a series of new cities‚ all called Alexandria‚ including modern Kandahar in Afghanistan‚ and Alexandria Eschate ("The Furthest") in modern Tajikistan. The campaign took Alexander through Media‚ Parthia‚ Aria (West Afghanistan)‚ Drangiana‚ Arachosia (South and Central Afghanistan)‚ Bactria (North and Central Afghanistan)
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Irenaeus (c. 130 - 202) [Asia Minor‚ Rome‚ Lyons]. Irenaeus was very much influenced and inspired by Polycarp’s preaching. He became Bishop of Lyons‚ and one of the leading Fathers of the Greco - French church in southern France. He was himself an influential preacher‚ and his writings give valuable information concerning doctrine. He expounded the beliefs of several sects‚ especially those of the Valeatinean Gnostics‚ (who interpreted the universe in terms of wisdom embodied in a system of aeons)
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blockade Cleopatra’s way to the Caesarians. For this purpose Lucius Statius Murcus moved with 60 ships and a legion of elite troops into position at Cape Matapan in the south of the Peloponnese. Nevertheless Cleopatra sailed with her fleet from Alexandria to the west along the Libyan coast to join the Caesarian leaders but her ships were damaged by a violent storm and she became ill‚ forcing her to return to Egypt. Murcus learned of the misfortune of the Queen and saw parts of her wrecked ships at
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Egyptian-German Seminar on Environment Protection from Hazards of Pesticides‚ Alexandria‚ Egypt. March 24-29‚ pp.94-108. Aly‚ Osama A.‚ and Badawy‚ M. I. (1981). Organochlorine insecticides in selected agricultural areas in Egypt. Proc. of the Internat. Symposium on Mgmt. of Indust. Wastewater in the Developing Nations‚ Alexandria‚ Egypt‚ March 28-31‚ pp. 273-281. Askar‚ A. (1980). Monitoring of pesticides in Lake Brullus. M.Sc. Thesis‚ Alexandria University. Cole‚ L. K.‚ Sanborn‚ J. R.‚ and Metcalf‚ R. L. (1976)
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thousand years that whether Cleopatra was a professional queen that know how to use her beauty to do everything for her beloved country or just a gorgeous woman who was easily and passionately in love with anyone. Cleopatra VII was born in 69 BC in Alexandria‚ Egypt. Her full name‚ "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra‚ the Beloved of Her Father". After her father’s death in the Spring of 51 BC‚ according to Egyptian law‚ Cleopatra was forced to have a consort‚ who was either a brother
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the geometry you learn at the high school level. Another significant contribution that the ancient Greeks made was greater understanding of irrational numbers.There were many scholars that contributed to this movement‚ Pythagoras‚ Archimedes‚ and Euclid (Bellos). These gentlemen were very important to the future knowledge and advancement to math and science. “It isn ’t that the mathematics the ancient Greeks discovered has changed‚ only that we continue to discover more and more of what lays beneath
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INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION Cryptography is the branch of science that deals with data security relating to encryption and decryption. This science has been in existence about 4000 years ago with its initial and limited use by the Egyptians‚ to the twentieth century where it played a crucial role in the outcome of both world wars. Cryptography was used as a tool to protect national secrets and strategies. DES‚ the Data Encryption Standard‚ is an adoption with the Federal Information
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learning and to grow as a person. College will help me be the type of person I want to be as an adult and it will also give me the ability to live my life the way that I have always dreamed of and the way I imagined it. Being able to come back to Euclid and do everything I can to help make a change and a difference would be a huge honor for me. I would love to completely reverse Euclid’s reputation into one of a prosperous city that people enjoy to visit and live in. I also want to be able to provide
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