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((√5+1)/2) = 1.61803398875

((-√5+1)/2)= -0.61803398875

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Well you are good.

Can you give that to me as a single number?

Edit: I suppose that's close enough.

The golden ratio, also known as the golden number, golden proportion, or divine proportion, is a ratio between two numbers that equals approximately 1.618. It is strongly associated with the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers wherein each number is added to the last.0 The origin of this number can be traced back to Euclid, who mentioned it as the "extreme and mean ratio" in the Elements.1 It appears many times in geometry, art, architecture, and other areas.2 In present-day algebra, letting the length of the shorter segment be one unit and the length of the longer segment be x units gives rise to the equation (x + 1)/x = x/1, for which the positive solution is x = (1 + Square root of 5)/2, the golden ratio.