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The golden ratio is a scientific nugget that has, for at least two thousand years, belonged as much to mysticism as to mathematics.
It is just a number 1.618 but to its devotees the ratio expresses aesthetic perfection, and can be found wherever there is beauty.
For example, they argue that of all the rectangles in the world the most pleasing to the eye has a ratio of length to width of 1.618.
And of all the smiles in the world, they maintain that the most beautiful have their central incisors 1.618 wider than their lateral incisors, which are 1.618 wider than their canines, and so on down through the molars.
There are web pages devoted to where else on the human face you can find the golden ratio, which is also known as the golden section, golden proportion or golden mean.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2012/aug/14/golden-ratio-uterus
This will generate lots of pick up lines, I'm sure....
MADem
(135,425 posts)The author can flip one the "golden finger" if he has a mind....
Freddie
(9,273 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)I'd better check on this to validate it.
Ratio is more or less 8:5.
tridim
(45,358 posts)It works equally well for websites and for painting your walls.
http://www.goldennumber.net/color/
drokhole
(1,230 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)drokhole
(1,230 posts)(the golden ratio and fractals pretty much go hand in hand)
DCKit
(18,541 posts)I was sure they'd find something golden a bit farther down.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)My bad.