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File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1597: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] writes the first known calculation of the (inverse) golden ratio as a decimal of "about 0.6180340" is a letter to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]].
File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1597: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] writes the first known calculation of the (inverse) golden ratio as a decimal of "about 0.6180340" is a letter to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]].
 
File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Gnotilus|Artifically intelligent mathematical function and alleged supervillain [[Gnotilus]] believed to have secreted multiple caches of [[Geometry solvent|Weaponized geometry solvent]] for use against Golden ratio.
File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Gnotilus|Supervillain [[Gnotilus]] believed to have secreted multiple caches of [[Geometry solvent|Weaponized geometry solvent]] for use against Golden ratio.
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|[[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] processes [[geometry solvent]] into [[Clandestiphrine]], Golden ratio vulnerable to covert recursion, warn temporal interrogators.  
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|[[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] processes [[geometry solvent]] into [[Clandestiphrine]], Golden ratio vulnerable to covert recursion, warn temporal interrogators.  
File:Madge_Palmolive.jpg|Consumer spokespersona says "[[geometry solvent]]" is nothing more than dish soap plus [[Extract of Radium]].
File:Madge_Palmolive.jpg|Consumer spokespersona says "[[geometry solvent]]" is nothing more than dish soap plus [[Extract of Radium]].

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In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.

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