Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site eisx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!spuxll!eisx!jtb From: jtb@eisx.UUCP (J. Burgess) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Golden Ratio Message-ID: <944@eisx.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 14:34:22 EDT Article-I.D.: eisx.944 Posted: Thu Jul 11 14:34:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 10:34:52 EDT Organization: AT&T Info. Sys. Labs, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 22 *** On Golden Ratio *** (Sorry, I couldn't resist) Re: golden ratio, Pascal's inverse triangle, etc. The strange and wonderful (sqrt(5)-1)/2 DOES appear in another strange and wonderful recursive series: sqrt(1 + sqrt(1 + sqrt(1 + ...) ) ) = 1.618033.... = 1 + phi (I think phi is he name the Geeks, oops I mean Greeks, gave it, anyway). Ponder That one! John Burgess -- John Burgess ATT-IS Labs, So. Plainfield NJ (HP 1C-221) {Action Central}!eisx!jtb (201) 561-7100 x2481 (8-259-2481)