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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Golden Ratio
Message-ID: <488@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:44:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.488
Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:44:12 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jul-85 01:47:14 EDT
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In article <944@eisx.UUCP> jtb@eisx.UUCP (J. Burgess) writes:
>
>The strange and wonderful (sqrt(5)-1)/2 DOES appear
>in another strange and wonderful recursive series:
>
>sqrt(1 + sqrt(1 + sqrt(1 + ...) ) )
>  = 1.618033....
>  = 1 + phi
>
>(I think phi is he name the Geeks, oops I mean Greeks,
>gave it, anyway).

Actually, phi is (sqrt(5)+1)/2 = 1.618033;
(sqrt(5)-1)/2 is phi - 1.