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Fibonacci and continued fractions

The ancient Greeks (and pretty much everyone in the art world from the Renaissance onwards) were kind of fascinated with the golden ratio, or φ (phi). To see why it might be seen as interesting, let’s take a look at a geometric view of the golden ratio. Consider a rectangle: the sides of this rectangle are in the golden ratio if you can subtract a square based on the shorter side and are left with another smaller rectangle which is also in the golden ratio. Inception! […]

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