The Golden Ratio By : Kaavya.K In mathematics and the arts‚ two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant‚ approximately 1.6180339887. Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section and golden mean. Other terms encountered include extreme and mean ratio‚ medial section‚ divine
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What are greatest moments? Are they the best moments in life‚ the ones we remember or the events we try to forget? When asked‚ people generally seem to say the moments they consider the best: Weddings‚ graduations‚ the birth of children and personal enlightenment. The key word here‚ it seems‚ is Greatest‚ and Great does not necessarily mean best‚ it means most important. The Greatest moments in life are just as likely to be tragedies as they are triumphs because bad moments are just as likely to
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Golden rice Vitamin A is one of the most important vitamins to humans‚ and it plays an inevitable role in our daily life‚ thus Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects millions of people‚ causing serious health problems. Therefore‚ scientists are searching for the most effective method to let people obtain enough Vitamin A as possible. As a consequence‚ the scientific program of cultivating Golden Rice has attracted people’s attention. “Golden Rice is a new type of rice that contains beta-carotene‚ a
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The Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a unique number approximately equal to 1.6180339887498948482. The Greek letter Phi (Φ) is used to refer to this ratio. The exact value for the golden ratio is the following: ` A popular example of the application of the golden ratio is the Golden Rectangle. Interestingly enough‚ many artists and architects have proportioned their works to apply the golden ratio in the form of the golden rectangle. A golden rectangle is a rectangle where the ratio of the
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8/23/2013 Golden age AP US history We see evidence of it everywhere we look‚ lush wilderness and amazing animals. That is what the colonists saw when they arrived to the Americas. A land that no one else had been to or experienced before‚ this is where America took its first breath. When the colonists arrived there were many people looking for a new life and retreat from the harsh rule of the queen. Both men and women looking to start a new life but women were already outnumbered
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GOLDEN MEAN It all started from this very smart man named Leonardo Bonacci‚ also known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci was a very important mathematician in Europe; he is believed to be the first. He learned with Arabic mathematicians and had an Arabic learning background to math. Fibonacci had this idea of counting how many rabbits are produced in a yearí ĉ. Fibonacci started with a pair of rabbits. The next month he had a new pair‚ as well the next one too. Fibonacci started working for a solution
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The Golden Rush was the digging struggled with success and failure. The gold of California was the attraction to the eyes of the world; the perfect land with all the possibilities to get richness in a short time. Argonauts undertook a dangerous journey to arrive after several days in California‚ some of them did not make it to their destiny for hunger or diseases. Others took advantage of the situation and made business such selling jerked beef‚ blankets‚ medicines‚ axes‚ and many items necessaries
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The Golden Bird A certain king had a beautiful garden‚ and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted‚ and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this‚ and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep‚ and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second
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The Golden Ratio The Golden Ratio is a term (with an astounding number of aliases‚ including Golden Section and Golden Mean) used to describe aesthetically pleasing proportioning within a piece. However‚ it is not merely a term -- it is an actual ratio. The Golden ratio is a special number found by dividing a line into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. It is often symbolized using phi‚ after the 21st letter
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The Golden Number 1.61803 39887 49894 84820 is by no means a number of memorization. However‚ it is a recognizable one. Never will you find a combination of numbers that is more significant than this one. This ratio is known as the Golden Number‚ or the Golden Ratio. This mystery number has been used throughout different aspects of life‚ such as art‚ architecture‚ and of course‚ mathematics. One may wonder where the Golden Ratio came from? Who thought to discover it? When was it discovered? And
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