Recall that the golden ratio is a special irrational number that is approximately equal to 1.618. It appears frequently in geometry, art, and architecture. Also recall that the Fibonacci sequence is the series of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 … Each number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. For example 5 is found by adding 3 and 2. German Astronomer Johannes Kepler once wrote that “as 5 is to 8, so 8 is to 13, approximately, and as 8 is to 13, so 13 is to 21, approximately”. What Kepler…
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Phi, the number that helps us make beautiful art
The Golden Ratio (phi) There are several well known “irrational numbers”, which are numbers that cannot be expressed as a ratio between two numbers and it cannot be written as a simple fraction because there is not a finite number of numbers when written as a decimal. When irrational numbers are written as decimals the decimal would go on forever without repeating. An irrational number you are probably very familiar with is pi or Π which is equal to 3.14159265359 …. it is the irrational number that helps us understand everything that is circular. Another irrational number you may have…
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