The fascinating fact of life is that many natural things exhibit mathematical constants, one of which is phi (1.618...), also known as the Golden Ratio. The leaves of birds' nest fern growing along the road home develops from spirals and one of these (see pic) captures the Golden Spiral quite accurately. The rectangles drawn are called the Golden Rectangles. The ratio of the areas of each set of consecutive rectangles follows closely to the Golden Ratio.
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Glad you started to blog again... Keep up the good work chau loong!!!
By the way is that plant in ur garden?
you finished your exams? That fern is growing on the road outside.
Nope. Haven started Aka datang in late may..
Mathematics is the beauty imprinted into the nature, the memory of the universe.
Lol, recently there was a compo question on mathematics and its meaning in life. It says that mathematics is only meant to challenge our intelligence and has no practical meaning. Seeing the golden spirals and stuff makes me disagree with this statement, but I still didn't do this question anyway =P
at least math helps me earn my keep...:)
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