From: Oswald Wyler <owyler@suscom-maine.net>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: \phi for the golden ratio?
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 19:08:24 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405291856020.8495-100000@203-228.suscom-maine.net> (raw)
In seventh or eighth grade -- a long time ago -- , I learned the name
"goldener Schnitt" (golden ratio, ratio aurea) for the positive solution
of the equation x^2 = x + 1. Recently, I read an article, I forgot
where, discussing this number and using \phi as the "accepted symbol"
for it. The old name was never mentioned.
So far, I have only met three real or complex numbers with universally
accepted one-letter symbols: \pi, e, i. Have I missed something?
Oswald Wyler
next reply other threads:[~2004-05-29 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-29 23:08 Oswald Wyler [this message]
2004-05-30 23:23 ` Robert Seely
2004-06-06 12:30 ` Paul B Levy
2004-06-01 7:21 Nils Andersen
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