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Re: Golden Ratio (was Over 70 LEGO products copied)
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Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:26:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, David Koudys wrote:
> > 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 say that the monolith didn't stop at the 3rd digit (or third
> > dimension, being 3^2 = 9), that the properites of the monolith went on above
> > the third dimension, still using the value of sqares (16, 25, etc...)
> 
> Right.  My point was that the Greek Golden ratio has nothing to do with the
> proportions of the monolith.
> --Bram

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?



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  Re: Golden Ratio (was Over 70 LEGO products copied)
 
(...) for a good Golden Section site: (URL) remember "Donald in Mathemagic land" Disney video? Jeff (23 years ago, 27-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 (23 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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