Difference between revisions of "User:Boris Tsirelson/sandbox2"
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draw( shift(A)*scale(0.5*(sqrt(5)-1))*unitcircle,currentpen+1 ); | draw( shift(A)*scale(0.5*(sqrt(5)-1))*unitcircle,currentpen+1 ); | ||
| − | draw( shift(B)*scale(0.5)*unitcircle, dashed ); | + | draw( shift(B)*scale(0.5)*unitcircle, dashed+red ); |
clip(A+(-0.15,-0.15)--B+(0.15,-0.15)--E+(0.15,0.15)--A+(-0.15,0.15)--cycle); | clip(A+(-0.15,-0.15)--B+(0.15,-0.15)--E+(0.15,0.15)--A+(-0.15,0.15)--cycle); | ||
Revision as of 16:19, 29 November 2014
Golden ratio
Strangely, the figure in EoM is erroneous! ED=EB, not BD=EB.
[Calculus: ] the art of numbering and measuring exactly a thing whose existence cannot be conceived. (Voltaire, Letter XVII: On Infinites In Geometry, And Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology)
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities? (Berkeley, The Analyst)
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Boris Tsirelson/sandbox2. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Boris_Tsirelson/sandbox2&oldid=35086
Boris Tsirelson/sandbox2. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Boris_Tsirelson/sandbox2&oldid=35086