{"id":44458,"date":"2022-10-27T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=44458"},"modified":"2022-10-27T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:37:28","slug":"math-golden-ratio-first-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-golden-ratio-first-glance\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: golden ratio, first glance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tutoring math, you see the golden ratio. The tutor mentions it.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are a few peculiarities that explain the golden ratio&#8217;s uniqueness. Let&#8217;s call it r. Then for a number x, x\/r = x(r-1). r is irrational; an approximation is 1.61803.<\/p>\n<p>For example, 5(0.61803)=3.090; also, 5\/1.61803=3.090.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/numbers\/golden-ratio.html\">mathisfun.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, you see the golden ratio. The tutor mentions it. There are a few peculiarities that explain the golden ratio&#8217;s uniqueness. Let&#8217;s call it r. Then for a number x, x\/r = x(r-1). r is irrational; an approximation is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-golden-ratio-first-glance\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: golden ratio, first glance<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44460,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44458\/revisions\/44460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}