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Mystery of golden ratio explained
Duke University ^
| Dec 21, 2009
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Posted on 12/21/2009 3:53:49 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon
I guess they have nothing useful to do at Duke.
To: 1955Ford
So would 39-24-39 be more golden?
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posted on
12/21/2009 6:17:51 AM PST
by
reg45
(Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
To: dangerdoc
To: decimon
44
posted on
12/21/2009 6:50:20 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: Eric in the Ozarks
That which comes before pro quo.
To: dangerdoc
And a heypenny back at cha.
To: domeika
What pretty eyes you have....
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posted on
12/21/2009 7:04:23 AM PST
by
Calamari
(Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
To: domeika
They’re fake. Natural breasts are pear shaped, not shaped like two hemispheres.
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posted on
12/21/2009 7:12:31 AM PST
by
Screaming_Gerbil
(The light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash...)
To: reg45
I took geometry in college but it was a 5 week summer course. We never did explore phi. I wish we had.
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posted on
12/21/2009 7:17:24 AM PST
by
rbosque
(11 year Freeper! The real reason the left wants to disarm us is becoming clearer.)
To: Screaming_Gerbil
does it really matter?
it is all an illusion.
There are no straight lines at the Parthenon.
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posted on
12/21/2009 7:18:10 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Screaming_Gerbil
Natural breasts are pear shaped, not shaped like two hemispheres.
Pears are naturally beautiful.
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posted on
12/21/2009 7:21:47 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: decimon
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posted on
12/21/2009 9:42:00 AM PST
by
laotzu
To: Salamander
Well ,,,,, duh!
(I notice in the article he doesn’t even mention the *exact* ratio. Should we tell him?)
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posted on
12/21/2009 9:49:20 AM PST
by
shibumi
(" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
To: Oztrich Boy
“the golden ratio describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width”
Do you suppose 1.56 falls within “roughly”?
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posted on
12/21/2009 9:50:52 AM PST
by
G Larry
(DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
To: shibumi
Let God tell the “genius”.
It’s His number, any way.
Salamander, charter member of the order of Phi-losophers
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posted on
12/21/2009 11:12:50 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I'm sure I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.....)
To: decimon
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posted on
12/21/2009 7:54:35 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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