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Default Golden Ratio Dividers - \triangles.jpg [01/01]

Doug Miller wrote:
|| In article , "Morris
|| Dovey" wrote:
||| This allows anyone to build a golden ratio divider of any size at
||| all. The method is independent of measurement units (inches, mm,
||| cubits, ad nausea).
||
|| Sorry, Morris, but I don't agree. Consider the attached -- the
|| ratio is not
|| fixed at 1:0.618, but instead depends on how far the diagonals
|| (indicated in
|| red) are produced from the square.

Thank you for agreeing with my point that the dividers can be produced
for any ratio. :-)

Possibly you didn't notice that the ratio was the starting point for,
rather than the consequential result of, the construction approach...

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/