The real award is that you competed. The golden ratio is famous, but maybe more so as an image of a nautilus shell with a rectangle drawn around it than as the actual idea of the ratio it embodies: “A ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

The golden ratio is an almost mythical number that you may have heard of in various areas of architecture or design. For example, many claim the ancient Greek Parthenon has numerous examples of the ...

Most people rarely deal with irrational numbers—it would be, well, irrational, as they run on forever, and representing them accurately requires an infinite amount of space. But irrational constants ...

Male support engineer, brown hair, blue shirt, red tie: I'm calling regarding the problem you were having this morning with your email. Male, brown hair, white shirt: Our ratio of computers to support ...