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    THE GOLDEN RATIO

    Aug 07, 2019 2 minutes
    Words by TOM WHIPPLE

    What links the Mona Lisa’s nose, the Cathedral of Chartres, the most pleasing arrangement of a rectangle and – to give one of the more surprising examples found in nature – the magnetic resonance of spins in cobalt niobate crystals?

    The answer is the number 1.618. Or, to

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