The Golden Ratio

Today we had the pleasure of having Brendan Eich hosting a brown bag for all us interns, and he started out his talk with slides on the Golden Ratio.

Shell Ratio

I did have a vague idea of what the ratio was – but today I found out a lot more about it – like how it occurs in almost every natural creation or phenomenon. The mysteriousness of the universe is very humbling. Perhaps if we used a different number system that was based on 1.6180339887 instead of 10, everything would make perfect sense…

Anyway, one thing it definitely explains is my love for 16:9 screens as opposed to the old 4:3 ones ;)

Posted by Anant on July 23rd, 2009 in Life, Mozilla, People | 2 Comments

2 Responses

  1. Manish remarks on

    I believe that Our current values of distance, Weight and time are not correct or some Units are missing. Some day some one will surely find the correct mesearement (New Units) of these and then There will be a BIG Surprise — “The All Constants will Become ONE.” I suppose It will surely related to 4^2:3^2 or 4:3

  2. Michael Sullivan remarks on

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_base

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