The ratio given by the sides of an A4 piece of paper. It has the nifty property that if you cut the paper in half crossways, the sides of the new (half-sized) pieces of paper are in the same ratio.
So the silver ratio is the square root of two, then.
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So the silver ratio is the square root of two, then.
Correct, or rather (by convention) its reciprocal.
How can the square root of two be a ratio if it isn't a rational number?
How can the square root of two be a ratio if it isn't a rational number?
A ratio doesn't have to be the ratio of two integers. There's no real problem with them being irrational numbers.
The `golden ratio' isn't rational, either. [IIRC, it's (1+sqrt(5))/2.]
Billytea,
The Democratic Republic of Congo does have a postal service, my friend is living and working there, but it is not very good (go figure). I am a huge Buffy fan exhiled by the US government to Guinea, in West Africa. Hope to meet some worldly Buffy fans.
So, Unamerican but not by choice, huh?
Welcome to Buffistas, guineagal! Do you manage to get Buffy in Guinea?
guineagal, I hope you weren't exiled
because
of your Buffy-liking! That would be daunting news to all of us! :-)
We so need a map of posters. This is too cool.
I may have spent too long looking at sites which sell pretty pictures to sick on your walls. I read ita's post and wondered why we'd need to map where there where posters, and then started on a train of thought all about maybe its'd got very obssesive about Legolas posters, and she wanted to know where they all were.
And then I read it again, and went, oh! Duh.
Yeah- 'Where in the World? Buffistas' would be cool.