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1.61803398874989484820458683436563811772
0309179805762862135448622705260462818902
44970720720418939113748475
Golden triangle
A Fibonacci spiral that approximates the golden spiral, using Fibonacci sequence square sizes up to 34.
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2 =
![{\displaystyle \varphi ={\sqrt {1+{\sqrt {1+{\sqrt {1+{\sqrt {1+\cdots }}}}}}}}\,.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6b0dfeeaec4ede4c7640fc71c81e52abed51f1cc)
![{\displaystyle -{\frac {\varphi }{2}}=\sin 666^{\circ }=\cos(6\cdot 6\cdot 6^{\circ }).{}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/34d27aad17d3c159e5e8ca60e76da8182729fd9a)
![{\displaystyle \varphi =1+2\sin(\pi /10)=1+2\sin 18^{\circ }}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/48828f620b4e5dbbc76fce1ab2eb6d99849a2b77)
![{\displaystyle \varphi ={1 \over 2}\csc(\pi /10)={1 \over 2}\csc 18^{\circ }}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/464a1c2f8a58ba12710fa27a90a5f50805480ef6)
![{\displaystyle \varphi =2\cos(\pi /5)=2\cos 36^{\circ }.\,}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8d2fab6304fc9c101ddd0088227e7b867289b671)
![{\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^{\infty }|F(n)\varphi -F(n+1)|=\varphi \,.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/461fddbed9cf6489544d02cc775576fd38995948)
![{\displaystyle \varphi ^{n+1}=\varphi ^{n}+\varphi ^{n-1}\,.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fbf9f2fda5b8e555b0c6470599ddeaa8b3449cfc)
![{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}3\varphi ^{3}-5\varphi ^{2}+4&=3(\varphi ^{2}+\varphi )-5\varphi ^{2}+4\\&=3[(\varphi +1)+\varphi ]-5(\varphi +1)+4\\&=\varphi +2\approx 3.618.\end{aligned}}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/49ad0d344bfe44a351629cea9fefc61e93c90d92)
The golden ratio's decimal expansion can be calculated directly from the expression
![{\displaystyle \varphi ={1+{\sqrt {5}} \over 2},}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/08608a86168129541ead972d3752c4a841728eda)
√5 ≈ 2.2360679774997896964.
![{\displaystyle x_{n+1}={\frac {(x_{n}+5/x_{n})}{2}}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/9ea5d76ee9f12facc453871a87c6299a49b6e034)
xn and xn−1.
![{\displaystyle x_{n+1}={\frac {x_{n}^{2}+1}{2x_{n}-1}},}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0d50cdef5820c3906f55c65e3d4a9f26f99cd7f9)
x − 1 − 1/x = 0,
![{\displaystyle x_{n+1}={\frac {x_{n}^{2}+2x_{n}}{x_{n}^{2}+1}}.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/435fb000c169c576a463944cba9f7651fb6a5c69)
F25001 and F25000,