The article attempts to explain this property of phi: > Maybe you have a picture of a flower, and you want to implement “every time the user clicks the mouse,

The article attempts to explain this property of phi: > Maybe you have a picture of a flower, and you want to implement “every time the user clicks the mouse, add a petal to the flower.” In that case you want to use the golden ratio: Make the angle from one petal to the next 360/phi and you can loop around the circle forever, adding petals, and the next petal will always fit neatly into the biggest gap and you’ll never loop back to your starting position. And points to a video. I think there's a much clearer explanation which shows how this is because (in some sense) phi is the "most irrational" ratio, stemming from its derivation from continued fractions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg I freely admit I have not a clue how this does or doesn't improve hash algos, but it's a cool video! :)