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In Italy, the Pantheon, however has the golden ratio. Its pillars below the roof is a rectangle, the golden rectangle, on the roof (top part) is a triangle, the golden triangle.

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Why is the golden ratio used in art and architecture?

It is pleasing to the human eye.


What is a ratio frequently seen in art and architecture?

Golden Ratio


What architecture uses the golden ratio?

The Parthenon in Greece uses the golden ratio as well as the Pyramids of Giza


What uses the golden ratio?

art, architecture, and music


What role did the golden ratio play in Greek Architecture?

The common belief is that the Greeks used the golden ratio (~1.618) for the relation between a building's length and its height. Mario Livio, who wrote a book on the golden ratio, claims that these ratios are actually somewhere between 1.4 and 2.0, so that may have been a myth.


How is the golden ratio beautiful?

It has been found to be aesthetically pleasing - in art, architecture etc


What has the golden ratio in it?

A great many things have the golden ratio in them varying from things fabricated by humans such as architecture, the proportions of the sides of a book also fall into the golden ratio. The golden ratio also occurs naturally for example the spiral in the snail's shell falls into the golden ratio. Generally most man made things have the golden ratio in them as it has been found quite simply, to look good.


Where is the golden ratio used?

The golden ratio = 1.8618033969... It is used in art, architechture and music. In the related links box below I posted a link showing the uses of the golden ratio.


How is Baseball used in golden ratio?

It is not. The Golden Ratio was known and used thousands of years before baseball was invented.


How is the golden ratio used in your daily life?

I use the Golden Ratio in my daily life to design websites.


A side of math where can you find the golden ratio?

The Fibonacci sequence can be used to determine the golden ratio. If you divide a term in the sequence by its predecessor, at suitably high values, it approaches the golden ratio.


How did Fibonacci discover the golden ratio?

Fibonacci didn't discover the golden ratio. It had been used thousands of years earlier,for example in construction of religious architecture by the Greeks, who considered it themost perfect and visually pleasing ratio of structural length to width. Fibonacci studied asimple numerical series that generates the number equal to the golden ratio.The number is also the solution to the equation: [ (x - 1) = 1/x ].