Don't you Just hate it. So 30 years latter you prove that the teacher was right. ;-) C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Krause To: Legacy-Ornamental-Mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 12:31 PM Subject: Amusing off topic side note about Math, the Golden Ratio, and Phi.
Hello All, A while back we where talking about the golden ratio. I'm not a math guy and will never pretend to be, but I do calculate all sorts of little things as I manual layout designs in my cad program. I was creating a sine wave pattern that wrapped around a circle and l noticed to make this pattern it takes two diameters of circles to make the pattern. The valley of the wave has a greater diameter than the peak of the wave. Originally I thought they where equal, this is not the case. The amusing part is if you divide the inner diameter by the outer diameter, you get 1.618. I recognized the number as being really familiar. I Googled the number and got a good laugh from the results. Some call it PHI, but it's better known as the Golden Ratio! No wonder the sine wave is so visually pleasing :-). I'm kicking myself for not paying attention in middle school math! -Tim -- --
