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What is so special about the number 1.62?

 
 
decency
 
Reply Sat 17 Dec, 2005 03:59 pm
I've been hearing people talking about it recently, and someone told me it came up in the Da Vinci Code book.. can anyone tell me what is so special about this number?
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markr
 
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Reply Sat 17 Dec, 2005 04:26 pm
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.golden.ratio.html
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engineer
 
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Reply Sat 17 Dec, 2005 04:52 pm
Pretty good Mark. I had no idea what it referred to.
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raprap
 
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Reply Sun 18 Dec, 2005 12:03 am
Shhhh---Guys!! There are certain numbers that only those of the guild are to know,

The fascination with encoding is quite lucrative. Right now a team of experts are applying the DaVinchi code processes to Margaret Mitchell's
Gone With the Wind.
Rap
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Intrepid
 
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Reply Sun 18 Dec, 2005 12:09 am
This is used by cabinet makers and us handymen all the time to build stuff. :-)

Why do you think your coffee table is so pleasing to the eye?
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Sun 18 Dec, 2005 02:03 am
Intrepid wrote:
This is used by cabinet makers and us handymen all the time to build stuff. :-)

Why do you think your coffee table is so pleasing to the eye?


And because it is only 1.62 feet tall- that's why you are always ramming your shins into it....
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Heliotrope
 
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Reply Thu 22 Dec, 2005 07:46 am
Intrepid wrote:
This is used by cabinet makers and us handymen all the time to build stuff. :-)

Why do you think your coffee table is so pleasing to the eye?

Because it cost me £2400 to have it made by the finest craftsman in England ?
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