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(...) There isn't a link there, because the Golden Section isn't 2:3... The golden ratio is derive from a rectangle where if a square is cut from the rectangle, the remaining piece is another golden ratio rectangle. So, the sides of the original (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mathematics aside, it's been a long time since I read the 2001 series (2001, 2010, 2061, 3001), but I recall that in one of 'em, there's a statement with the idea that the monolith is based on squares starting at 1, and the thought went on to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For the record while I posted that text, I did not WRITE it. Bram trimmed off the cite I gave to the site I glommed the text from. I mean, really, does that prose read like something I'd have written? Sorry for any confusion (that Bram's (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oops, sorry. Your cite wasn't very clear. (...) Nope, it doesn't... --Bram (20 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right. My point was that the Greek Golden ratio has nothing to do with the proportions of the monolith. --Bram (20 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The golden ratio is related to a different sequence: the ratio between consecutive numbers of the Fibonacci sequence approaches Phi. Or phi, if you go backwards. So, if the monolith were golden-ratio realated, its sides in the primary three (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, but I wanted to post this somewhere, and here looked like a pleasant spot :) Dave K -what are you doing, Dave? Would you like to hear a song? (20 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) for a good Golden Section site: (URL) remember "Donald in Mathemagic land" Disney video? Jeff (20 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes. My very bad high school math teacher made us watch it a lot. (20 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:Hs3wLt.254@lugnet.com... (...) instance, (...) for (...) (first (...) number in (...) (final (...) exist (...) the (...) My God.. LOL. On Lugnet you can learn about everything! I allways use (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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