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Historical note: In the movie "Pi", the golden ratio appeared in a drawing of the subdivided rectangle, but they got the ratio wrong! It should have been (a+b)/
by mjcohen 16y ago
Historical note: In the movie "Pi", the golden ratio appeared in a drawing of the subdivided rectangle, but they got the ratio wrong! It should have been (a+b)/a = a/b, but they wrote (a+b)/a = b/a, which is obviously wrong.
btw, I enjoyed the movie.
btw^2, the plots and numerical tables in the movie were from a Dover publication "Tables of Functions, with Formulae and Curves" by Jahnke and Emde published in 1945.
- celoyd 16y agoThere are several errors like this in the movie. IMDB’s “goofs” page is long. I assume they were mostly accidental, but I’d rather see them as part of the atmosphere of irrationality within rationality.