Re: Types of numerals
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 3, 2006, 1:51 |
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Hi!
Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:07:47 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
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> > The golden [ratio] is 8:5, right? derived from the Fibonacci series?
>
> Close to 8/5. As you rightly say, it's derived from the Fibonacci
> series, being F_n/F_(n-1), so the higher the numbers used, the better
> the approximation. IIRC, after about the 20th term it starts to get
> pretty much invariable for day-to-day purposes, i.e. 1.6180339, give
> or take.
And the exact value is computed by (sqrt(5)+1)/2 =
1.6180339887498948482045868343656381177203091798057628621354486227053...
**Henrik
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