Is 1.618 true ?...

Paddy20

What is 1.618 ?...

Do you know about 1.618. If you do, do you believe in it.

Has it proven to be of any importance in your life ?...

P. :ninja:

DiscoStu

the reciprocal of 0.61804697156983930778739184177998?

Stephen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,875198,00.html

Interesting.

mike65

Ah the Golden Ratio - perfect faces and perfect buildings.

Mike.

Capt'n Midnight

The person with the gold makes the rules.

ixoy

Wasn't it the Egyptians who loved this number's symmetry (e if I recall correctly)? Isn't it the number that helps dictate natural formations like the spiral pattern on some crustaceans? Quite beautiful, and a staple of cheap thriller/sci-fi books.

Mercury_Tilt

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ixoy

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Didnt you just google all that like the rest of us.....

Eh no. I was recalling it, hence asking in question form to see if I was right. Like I said, I've found it in cheap sci-fi and similiar malarky :rolleyes:

Mercury_Tilt

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ixoy

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Name a book then. Ill look it up tomorrow and see if you are lying.

Good God, I can't recall offhand. I think maybe it might be "Set Piece" by Kate Orman, because that was set in Egypt. I've a vague feeling it was mentioned in one of Mulder's rants in the X-Files at some point, but that series got so "meh" that I couldn't distinguish an episode anymore. Sorry if I don't write down a journal detailing the source of every piece of knowledge I acquire

Mercury_Tilt

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Agent Smith

Originally posted by Paddy20
What is 1.618 ?...

Do you know about 1.618. If you do, do you believe in it.

Has it proven to be of any importance in your life ?...

P. :ninja:

no importance afaik....



i wouldnt base beauty on it..... beauty is from within

embee

This was on a programme ages ago with John Cleese and Liz Hurley presenting. It was all about the concept of beauty... anyhoo there was a website where one could submit their pic and find out if their face fitted the "Golden Ratio"....


Bizarrely, one side of my face did and one didnt.

sceptre

Ah, Fibonacci numbers, brings back memories.

I know I read a book last year that mentioned the ratio and pleasantness but I'm damned if I can remember the name of it.

Oriel

Sorry about the old cliche, but: I saw TV program about that. It was about 1999. I remember the whole "perfect" face/beauty thing about it and the musical implication.

I remember thinking "God, I'm never going to forget that number!!!"

So thank's for reminding me...

PrecariousNuts

An excellent book about it is called "The Golden Ratio" by Mario Livio. Unfortunately my copy still hasn't arrived from amazon. I ordered it about 3 weeks ago and still nothing. It was in stock and estimated it would ship the next day.

whosurpaddy

as sceptre has said. its a Fibonacci. theres a bit about it in the davinci code. a great book, would highly recommend it

Saviour_Angel

that's pretty wierd but cool

:rolleyes:

Victor

So what other special numbers are out there?

Barry Aldwell

pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 (etc)

e = 2.7182818284590452353602874713527 (etc)

Capt'n Midnight

doh.ie

"Good God, I can't recall offhand. I think maybe it might be "Set Piece" by Kate Orman, because that was set in Egypt. I've a vague feeling it was mentioned in one of Mulder's rants in the X-Files at some point"

I seem to remember it from The X-Files as well, but it definitely featured heavily in last year's Sci-Fi Channel's mini-series "Taken" (shown here on BBC2/3 and Net2), which referred to the sequence as "God's equation".

A good link for Fibonacci in nature is at:
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html

Also, check out Fibonacci in art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus

Like another poster, I highly recommend The DaVinci code as well.

Capt'n Midnight

Golden ration = Phi =
http://members.aol.com/loosetooth/math.html


Notable Properties of Specific Numbers - http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/math/numbers.html

The first 250,000 digits of the square root 9 !
http://www.newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/9.htm (306KB)

http://mathpages.com/home/kmath153.htm - triangle golden number

http://www.worldofnumbers.com/



Eulers equation in terms of Phi.

sceptre

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
The first 250,000 digits of the square root 9 !
http://www.newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/9.htm (306KB)

I thought I misread what you wrote there. Turns out I didn't.

Funny all the same.

Pigman II

Originally posted by Barry Aldwell
pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 (etc)

e = 2.7182818284590452353602874713527 (etc)

Then pie = 8.5397342226735670654635508695431 . mmmm pie.

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by Pigman II
Then pie = 8.5397342226735670654635508695431 . mmmm pie.

I get pi*e = 8.5397342226735670654635508695466, from the original calculator (XP powertoy calculator) that I used to write out pi and e

greglo23

and of course the ultimate number, 42 , the answer to
the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything".

ozt9vdujny3srf

I dunno if any of you guys have seen darren oronofskys pi, with the mathematician and the numbers and the golden ratio and the spirals and all of that. Good film


Yyyyyup.

Shabadu

mmm... pi. Fabulous movie; although i did have a self-trepanning recurring nightmare after the 1st time i saw it.

MrPinK

Pi is exactly 3!!!!!

Oriel

Ah yes... one of my favourite moments from the Simpsons... :-)

the_syco

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
The person with the gold makes the rules.

Actually, the guy with the biggest gun/bomb makes the rules.

/me whips out a h-bomb

ANYBODY MOVEs, AND I NUKE UR ASS!

Shabadu

But surely the one with the gold has the biggest gun?

Victor

Originally posted by the_syco
/me whips out a h-bomb

I raise you the Big Bang.

Capt'n Midnight

I see your Big Bang, and raise you another two Big Bangs from alternative universes.

Victor

I raise you nothingness.