eli5 Golden Ratio

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What are its uses in the real world?

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The vast majority I’ve witnessed has been memes which overlay the Fibonacci spiral over mundane pictures, then claim that whatever clearly mundane thing was framed is perfection manifest.

And, honestly, it’s a good use for it. A lot of the claimed legitimate uses in, say, framing a picture can just as easily be explained by other mathematical relationships or just by appealing to shared intuition. The spiral, and the sequence which underlies it is of very limited practical application, so it’s fitting that most of its uses in the last decade have been internetfolk using it to poke fun at its misapplications.

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