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    The Golden Ratio

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    The Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a unique number approximately equal to 1.6180339887498948482. The Greek letter Phi (Φ) is used to refer to this ratio. The exact value for the golden ratio is the following: ` A popular example of the application of the golden ratio is the Golden Rectangle. Interestingly enough‚ many artists and architects have proportioned their works to apply the golden ratio in the form of the golden rectangle. A golden rectangle is a rectangle where the ratio of the

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    The Golden Ratio The Golden Ratio is a term (with an astounding number of aliases‚ including Golden Section and Golden Mean) used to describe aesthetically pleasing proportioning within a piece. However‚ it is not merely a term -- it is an actual ratio. The Golden ratio is a special number found by dividing a line into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. It is often symbolized using phi‚ after the 21st letter

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    The Golden Bird

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    The Golden Bird A certain king had a beautiful garden‚ and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted‚ and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this‚ and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep‚ and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second

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    The Golden Ratio

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    The Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a number used in mathematics‚ art‚ architecture‚ nature‚ and architecture. Also known as‚ the divine proportion‚ golden mean‚ or golden section it expresses the relationship that the sum of two quantities is to the larger quantity as is the larger is to the smaller. It is also a number often encountered when taking the ratios of differences in different geometric figures. Represented mathematically as approximately 1.618033989‚ and by the Greek letter Phi

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    Golden Eagle

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    David Ratliffe 11/12/09 Mrs. Wolfe 4th Biology The golden eagle [pic] The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles‚ it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic‚ it has disappeared from many of the more heavily Populated areas. Despite being locally extinct or uncommon‚ the species is still fairly ubiquitous

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    The Golden Number 1.61803 39887 49894 84820 is by no means a number of memorization. However‚ it is a recognizable one. Never will you find a combination of numbers that is more significant than this one. This ratio is known as the Golden Number‚ or the Golden Ratio. This mystery number has been used throughout different aspects of life‚ such as art‚ architecture‚ and of course‚ mathematics. One may wonder where the Golden Ratio came from? Who thought to discover it? When was it discovered? And

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    Golden Notebook

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    Book Report: The Golden Notebook Meg 1011325 The author Doris May Lessing is a British writer. Her novels include The Golden Notebook‚ The Golden Notebook‚ and five other novels collectively known as Canopus in Academy. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience‚ who with skepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". She was also the eleventh woman and the

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    The Golden Girls

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    The Golden Girls I am going to be writing about the lifetime television show‚ " The Golden Girls". There are many different episodes and I have probably seen them all‚ at least twice. I first started watching the show with my mom. My curfew when I was in high school was 11:00 or 11:30. While I was going into detail about the many things that had happened that night‚ "The Golden Girls" would be on. At first I did not enjoy them‚ but as I got to know the characters I was addicted. First

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    Golden Ratio

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    What is the Golden Ratio The golden ration can occur anywhere. The golden proportion is the ratio of the shorter length to the longer length which equals the ratio of the longer length to the sum of both lengths. The golden ratio is a term used to describe proportioning in a piece. In a work of art or architecture‚ if one maintained a ratio of small elements to larger elements that was the same as the ratio of larger elements to the whole‚ the end result was pleasing to the eye. The ratio

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    Golden Ratio

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    The Golden Ratio Body‚ art‚ music‚ architecture‚ nature – all connected by a simple irrational number – the Golden Ratio. According to Posamentier & Lehmann in their work The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers‚ there is reason to believe that the letter φ (phi) was used because it is the first letter of the name of the celebrated Greek sculptor Phidias (490-430 BCE). He produced the famous statue of Zeus in the Temple of Olympia and supervised the construction of the Parthenon in Athens

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