Tank Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 I read in a book that this was the most beautiful number and altough this post has no importance at all...just wondered why is was the most beautiful number. Drum Roll Please.... tltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltl 1.618 -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Beats me??????? thats an awfully long drumroll for 1.618 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 and the book offered no explaination as to why this might be the case? what was it about and was it fiction or something? it`s certainly a catchy title if Cryptic is your "thing" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 I beleive you refer to phi. The proportion which everything is said to look best. For example, a rectangle with sides in a ration of 1:1.618 is said to be the most pleasing to look at. http://goldennumber.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Indeed, there's a lot of strange ratios and things that involve phi generally. (as a brief overview, if you work out Fn/Fn-1 where F is a term in the Fibonacci sequence, then phi is equal to the limit of this ratio as n tends to infinity.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 if "beauty" is subjective (and I`m sure we can all agree on that) then how can it be quantified? least of all have a ratio attatched to it!? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skye Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 You have to realise these were guys that wore tights into old age, how can you trust them about what looks good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Brash move.........no wonder your rep is low;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 if "beauty" is subjective (and I`m sure we can all agree on that) then how can it be quantified?least of all have a ratio attatched to it!? ) Perhaps you're going about this the wrong way. If Phi is present in many systems that are part of something we say is "beautiful", then perhaps beauty is not as subjective as we thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted April 20, 2004 Author Share Posted April 20, 2004 The book was The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It's been quite some tiem since I read the books so I'm not sure if it was explained. Although, I do remember when he wrote about it he talked about how 1.618 was a reaccurring number in events that happened on earth. Dan Brown did such a good job by making fact and fiction bind together to make pure fact that it's hard to comprehend if all the situations where 1.618 appeared. Now that I know of it the number might have just been 618, but I'm not too sure. If anyone has read the book correct me if I am wrong...constructive critisism please. Another strange thins is that 618 is my area code...LoL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 It was phi. I believe Robert Langdon was using it to teach a class about anatomy and how phi was a proportion often found in plants and animals. On the website I posted a while ago, there is a nice little section on the left detailing where all this apears. Some I think is a little bit of a stretch, but it's is interesting for a minute or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Brash move.........no wonder your rep is low;) Indeed - it can't be helping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I CAN'T EDIT IT! So everyone stop giving it a bad report. Mods, will you delete it already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 I didn't give you any points for it, i thought it was funny-ish, least no one will quote ya;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glider Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 I CAN'T EDIT IT! So everyone stop giving it a bad report. Mods' date=' will you delete it already?[/quote'] Consider it done. Think before posting in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Indeed. It's posts like that which will lower your reputation quite considerably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSX Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 ? Anyway, the most beautiful number (more like a percentage) to me is 100% I love seeing it on tests thought i've only gotten one so far this year.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 I got 98.7%, which was particularly galling :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Ah, I'm sry. I'm glad it's gone. I'll DEFINITLY be more careful from now on and be more mature in my posting. sry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Indeed, I think it's for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 I can't believe I didn't see this thread earlier! Phi is indeed the most beautiful number. Take the ratio of your whole arm to the elbow to fingertip bit, you get 1.618 to 1. The same for your legs and knees to toes. Elbow to fingertip, wrist to fingertip the same. Your face has lots of these phi ratios, like from top of the head to chin, middle of the eyes to chin is 1.618 to 1. In nature, spirals found in shells and seed clusters are always the same ratio. Take the width of a sunflower's center to the length of its petals and you get phi to 1. A dolphin's total length to its tail to dorsal fin ratio is phi to 1. The pentagram was considered a magical symbol because ALL of its lines bisect each other in this same ratio. Many artists and architects take advantage of this naturally occuring ratio. It was named after the Greek sculptor Phidias. The Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan and the Great Pyramid at Ghiza both use it in their designs. Raphael, DaVinci and Michaelangelo all believed it evoked special emotions from humans and used it to proportion all their human subjects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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