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One more addition, this is where the blogger is mistaken:

    Funny thing about the Golden Ratio, if you look for it, you'll find it everywhere.
He meant to say "five", not the golden ratio. 1.666 = 2/3 and 2+3=5. Because as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst said to Malaclypse, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."


Well, the Golden Ratio is one plus the square root of FIVE divided by two.


√5×.5+.5


(5+5*sqrt(5))/(5+5) .. 5 is everywhere!


2/3 ~ 0.666666667


He probably meant 5/3


No it was actually an honest mistake and I wasn't thinking at all.

But let's say that's what I meant.




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