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From: jtb@eisx.UUCP (J. Burgess)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Golden Ratio
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 14:34:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 14:34:22 1985
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*** 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
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