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  • Mmm yooo I just made myself some ramen noodle shit is TIGHT. Def recommend pizza to. But I'm glad things are going well for you!

    Had a few crazy life changes recently but I'm adjusting well and making more money so things are on an upwards incline! Though every time I get a free moment to check PC I am soooooooo exhausted blehhhhh
    HI

    AAAH, are we the same person?! I also left two assignments till the last minute. I have tomorrow to work on them but I really should have started earlier, now that I think about it. Good luck with your work, hopefully it's not anything too annoying! I am doing good otherwise though - my holidays start after next week and I can't wait. I'm already so done with trying to finish all these assignments on time :')
    Mathematical explanations aren't always easy, I'll admit, and the wiki article probably explains it better than I ever would. I took a little while myself to understand it. The number in itself is of little physical significance (as far as I know; most things where this number pops up are more related to the Fibonacci sequence) so it's not easy to explain a notion that is purely mathematical.
    That's φ, the golden ratio! If you have, say, two quantities a and b such that (a+b)/a is equal to a/b, a and b are related by that ratio. It has some neat geometrical properties (it has been found in nature, for example, in the arrangement of leaves and branches along the stems of plants, and of veins in leaves, and some of the Parthenon's proportions are close to this ratio, and rectangles whose sides are in this proportion have interesting features as well), and is the only number in which 1/φ=φ-1. It is also related to the Fibonacci sequence - The ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers converges to φ. The further you advance in the sequence, dividing one number by the previous one will be closer to that ratio.

    It's a neat little number. :3
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