Spirals and the Golden Ratio The Golden Ratio: Phi, 1.618
Aug 25, 20120183;32;The Fibonacci spiral gets closer and closer to a Golden Spiral as it increases in size because of the ratio of each number in the Fibonacci series to the one before it converges on Phi, 1.618, as the series progresses (e.g., 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13 produce ratios
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