The Golden Ratio has been represented by the Greek letter ( phi ), after Phidias, who is said to have employed it.

Also, the Golden Ratio of a tape measure of shoulder-to-waist ratio is called the Adonis Index.

The original flag was designed according to the Golden Ratio, which is reflected in the relation between the fly and hoist of the flag and the square of the blue canton.

The star does not appear upright in the center of the rectangular canton, instead the upper point appears slightly inclined toward the pole in such a way that its projection divides the length of the canton in the Golden Ratio.

According to astrophysicist and math popularizer Mario Livio, since the publication of Luca Pacioli's Divina Proportione in 1509, when " with Pacioli's book, the Golden Ratio started to become available to artists in theoretical treatises that were not overly mathematical, that they could actually use ," many artists and architects have been fascinated by the presumption that the golden rectangle is considered aesthetically pleasing.

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In Greek architecture, the Golden mean, ( also known as the Golden rectangle, Golden Section, and Golden Ratio ) served as a canon for planning all the architectural designs.

The new line-up released their first album together The Golden Ratio in September 2010.

The first single from The Golden Ratio, " All For You ", was serviced to European radio stations in mid-July 2010 and was released as a single on September 10, 2010.

The Golden Ratio was released on 24 September 2010.

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In nearly all cases, the Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio occur in these arrangements.

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They saw this in nature and in a particular proportion, the Golden Ratio ( roughly 1. 618 ) and its recurrence in many things.

* Mike Mangini-A unique 6. 25 " x10 " ' Golden Ratio ' sized snare made with 6 ply, 100 % Birch shell complete with " Phi " graphic covering.

In 2012, Adler contributed to a family venture when he wrote the foreword for his then 99 year old father's 87th book, " Solving the Riddle of Phyllotaxis: Why the Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio Occur on Plants ".

* The Key To The Universe ( previously Numbers: The Key To The Universe, ISBN 0-439-98116-6 ( Fibonacci Series, Golden Ratio, properties of Square, Triangle, Cube, Centred Hexagon and Tetrahedral numbers, " difference of two squares ", number superstitions, prime numbers, Mersenne primes, tests to see if a number will divide by anything from 2-13 and 19, finger multiplication, binary and base 8, perfect numbers, irrational transcendental and imaginary numbers, infinity.

* The Murderous Maths of Everything, ISBN 1-407-10367-9 ( prime numbers, Sieve of Eratosthenes, Pythagoras ' Theorem, triangle numbers, square numbers, the International Date Line, geometry, geometric constructions, topology, Mobius strips, curves ( conic sections and cycloids Golomb Rulers, 4 dimensional " Tic Tac Toe ", The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci sequence, Logarithmic spirals, musical ratios, Theorems ( including Ham sandwich theorem and Fixed point theorem ), probability ( cards, dice etc.

He also uses the Golden Ratio in some of his calculations.

`` This girl is the Golden Girl of cafe society.

Apollo is often associated with the Golden Mean.

It was the cover story of the issue of Astounding that is sometimes described as having ushered in the " Golden Age " of science fiction.

It is usually marked as the first day of " Golden Week ", a week-long holiday period.

The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

The city lies on the Golden Quadrilateral National Highway ( NH ) 8, midway between Delhi and Mumbai and is located about 400 km from Delhi and 135 km from Jaipur.

His period of activity as a painter is traditionally limited to the two decades between 1639 and 1660, fitting directly within the generally accepted limits of the Dutch Golden Age ’ s most significant period, 1640-1665.

Acrylic paints with gloss or matte finishes are available, although a satin ( semi-matte ) sheen is most common ; some brands exhibit a range of finish ( e. g., heavy-body paints from Golden, Liquitex, Winsor & Newton and Daler-Rowney ). Politec acrylics are fully matte.

A good example is the work of Professors Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in creating Golden rice ( discussed below ).

The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay ( the Golden Gate ), which is due west of Berkeley.

Cambodia is a transshipment site for Golden Triangle heroin, and possibly a site of money laundering.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Confucius ' concept of humaneness () is probably best expressed in the Confucian version of the ethic of reciprocity, or the Golden Rule: " Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.

The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, and is the start of the Golden Age of comics.

Fire is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan traditions influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

In the Golden Dawn and many other magical systems, each element is associated with one of the cardinal points and is placed under the care of guardian Watchtowers.

An important study of this figure is James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, which traces the dying god theme through a large number of myths.

She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

The period of the 1920s and 1930s is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.