Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 35
oint O, and BD is the square so created. BC is the line which creates a similar figure to the whole. One or unity- should be considered as meaning a square. The number 2 means two squares, 3, three squares, and so on. In Fig. 19 we have the defined square BD, which is unity. The fraction .618… … .&IS Fig. 21. If the ratio 1.6 18 is subtracted from 2.236, the square root of 5, the remainder will be the decimal fraction .618. This shows that the area of a root-five recT tangle is equal to the area of a whirling square rectangle plus its reciprocal, that is, it equals the area of a whirling…
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