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ARTICLES RELATED TO Golden ratio - Mathematical uses |  |  |  | Golden ratio - Mathematical uses: Encyclopedia II - Golden ratio - Mathematical usesThe number φ turns up frequently in geometry, in particular in figures involving pentagonal symmetry. For instance the ratio of a regular pentagon's side and diagonal is equal to φ, and the vertices of a regular icosahedron are located on three orthogonal golden rectangles.
The explicit expression for the Fibonacci sequence involves the golden ratio:
The limit of ratios of successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence (or any Fibonacci-like sequence) equals the golden ratio; therefore, when a number in the F ...
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 |  |  | Golden ratio - Mathematical uses: Encyclopedia II - Golden ratio - DefinitionTwo quantities are said to be in the golden ratio, if "the whole (i.e., the sum of the two parts) is to the larger part as the larger part is to the smaller part", i.e. if
where a is the larger part and b is the smaller part.
Equivalently, they are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the larger one to the smaller one equals the ratio of the smaller one to their difference, i.e. if
After multiplying the first equation with a/b or the second equation with (a − b)/b, both of these equations are se ...
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 |  |  | Golden ratio - Mathematical uses: Encyclopedia II - Golden ratio - A startlingly quick proof of irrationalityRecall that we denoted the "larger part" by a and the "smaller part" by b, and concluded that
This gives a startlingly quick proof that the golden ratio is an irrational number. An irrational number is one that cannot be written as a/b where a and b are integers. If a/b is such a fraction, in lowest terms, then b/(a − b) is in even lower terms — a contradict ...
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