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The golden ratio is the most irrational number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaasbfdJdJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaasbfdJdJg This is why it creates
by std_throwaway 7y ago
The golden ratio is the most irrational number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaasbfdJdJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaasbfdJdJg
This is why it creates some distinctive patterns when applied to circular/spiral shapes.
- thechao 7y agoIt's the fraction that converges the "slowest", in a sense. (It's the continued fraction of all 1's.)
- notfashion 7y agoIt might converge more slowly than any other simple continued fraction, but there are some super-slow to converge generalized continued fractions. A couple of examples that are slower than phi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80#Continued_fractions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80#Conti...