Crystal Math XVII: Opinion of φ

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Rather pretentious for invoking a greek letter to describe a simple sum of a rational and an irrational number.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Nothing wrong with being a little pretentious. I just have found (1+sqrt(5))/2 very useful to work with, and I usually remember the golden ratio by that. I am quite impressed by the rhombic triacontahedron, I will admit. To think, a solid composed of rhombi.

     As an aside, when I was in high school, we went over sequences. We had to do a few different operations with a few different sequences, most of which were simple. One thing we had to do was find the 100th term of the Fibonacci sequence. I did not know that the golden ratio could be used to calculate the nth term of the Fibonacci sequence, so I spent hours calculating it through recursion. Years later, I discovered the truth about it.