Talk:Golden mean

The following is in the article:

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But more interestingly, it is usually found in natural shapes:

• Leaves length / width
• On faces, it's everywhere! Ratio mouth width / nose width, etc.
• More examples welcome!

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The first is obviously wrong - leaves come in all sorts of proportions. The second doesn't make much sense - mouth width divided by nose width may be close to the golden ratio for most people, but it's also close to π/2, 1.6, √e, etc. --Zundark, 2001 Nov 6

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Is there any known (or speculated) reason why humans find the golden rectangle beautiful? - Stuart Presnell

For me the most beautiful is its continued fraction representation, which can't be more simple φ = [1; 1, 1, 1, ...]. Perhaps golden rectangle is beautiful because it is so simple. But in fact it is not so simple. Just beautiful. Some human nature obviously can't be described with pure math. The same thing is with a devine being in Islam. Arabesques are beautiful and nobody knows why. Western Church built complex churches along the centuries. Simple orthodox Ethiopian church had built cubic ones as Lalibela's churches are. These are some of my views on a subject. Another question. Why is chaos nowadays so beautiful. Just because of a fashion? Best regard. -- XJamRastafire 15:08 Sep 5, 2002 (PDT)

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Work remains in this article to describe the golden mean better to the everyday person. Kingturtle 21:56 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)

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Putting the first few thousand digits doesn't seem encyclopedic to me. Just putting a link to a webpage containing the first few million would be enough. —seav 01:39 4 Jul 2003 (UTC)