PHI (fee)

Phi is known as the golden ratio.
Believed to be aesthetically pleasing.



Also irrational, approximately 1.61803...



Phi is an algebraic number as it satisfies  with  

Phi=1.61803...

The height of a woman over the height of her belly button.


Phi is the ratio of successive Fibonacci numbers.
(or any series like it)

Most quickly proved irrational number, again by contradiction (simple proof 1975).

Interesting number to invert in a calculator. The decimal part never changes.

(A cool number to put in you calculator and while pressing 1/x)  Lots more do that as well, found by changing the 1 to n in the equation for phi:)


Supposedly used in the design of buildings and art.

The Parthenon


Leonardo Da Vinci     

Had shown how all
different body parts
were related by the
Golden Ratio.









Well almost all :)

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