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Question
Hi,
What is the Golden Mean Ratio?
1st Answer
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The Golden Ratio was in the title. Now I could say that The Golden Ration is 1.6180339887, but I'm not to sure if that would get any further. Let's try another approach.
2nd Answer
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The Golden Mean Ratio is sometimes referred to as The Golden Mean or as The Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio is where (α+ß)/α = α/ß.
3rd Answer
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A better way (that's another way) to describe it might be to say that we have a rectangle that is α*ß. Take α as the longer side. Add a square right next to this rectangle that has α as the length of the side. The Golden Ratio is (α+ß)/α = α/ß.
4th Answer
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It can be looked up in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio .
To see that The Golden Ration is the same as the Golden Mean or the Golden Mean Ration, look here:
community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Humanities/TheGoldenMean.html .
The first one describes it and the second one says it can various terms can be used to describe it.
Final Answer
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Yes, this is my final answer. All of the above describe the answer, so choose the one that you understand.
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