home The Death of Distance: from Pythagoras to Galileo
An event at the Dome, November 29th, 2000

Ancient Greeks

The golden ratio The ratio 1.618 : 1 is used in construction of The Parthenon. Drag point C until the red, yellow and blue rectangles all become square, then calculate AB/AC.
Calculate the ratio.

AB       AC
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