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Or is 1.618 the ontime percentage of the VPS station since Mesaba took over?

I've only been there once but they did a great job getting me turned and departed with a full flight 10 early including 2 Jumpseaters (one up front) and I was able to make my commute home rather than having to wait 4 hours for the last flight home.....
 
Phi not Pi. Big difference - it explains why the windows on a CRJ-200 are so small:

Two quantities a and b are said to be in the golden ratio φ if:
This equation unambiguously defines φ.
The right equation shows that a = bφ, which can be substituted in the left part, giving
Dividing out b yields
Multiplying both sides by φ and rearranging terms leads to:
The only positive solution to this quadratic equation is

[edit] Relationship to Fibonacci sequence

For more details on this topic, see Fibonacci number.
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Approximate and true golden spirals. The green spiral is made from quarter-circles tangent to the interior of each square, while the red spiral is a Golden Spiral, a special type of logarithmic spiral. Overlapping portions appear yellow. The length of the side of a larger square to the next smaller square is in the golden ratio.


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A Fibonacci spiral that approximates the golden spiral, using Fibonacci sequence square sizes up to 34.


The mathematics of the golden ratio and of the Fibonacci sequence are intimately interconnected. The Fibonacci sequence is:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, … The closed-form expression (known as Binet's formula, even though it was already known by Abraham de Moivre) for the Fibonacci sequence involves the golden ratio:
The golden ratio is the limit of the ratios of successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence (or any Fibonacci-like sequence):
Therefore, if a Fibonacci number is divided by its immediate predecessor in the sequence, the quotient approximates φ; e.g., 987/610 ≈ 1.6180327868852. These approximations are alternately lower and higher than φ, and converge on φ as the Fibonacci numbers increase, and:
Furthermore, the successive powers of φ obey the Fibonacci recurrence:
This identity allows any polynomial in φ to be reduced to a linear expression. For example:
 
The Houston Eulers were such a hard team to bet against.

The bookies made the spread naturally, and logged it as such.
 
I thought you said Golden Shower!




nevermind!
PBR
 
If you wanted to cut a piece of sheet metal to form the floor and sloped side of a cargo bin that was 1 unit wide at the bottom, two units high, and two units wide at the top, the length of that piece would be 2 times phi. (about 3.236 units).

Consider the coorditates of the side view of the vargo bin to be (0,0), (1,0), (2,2), and (0,2).
 

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