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Who created Phi?

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Pokemaster50

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15y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

Phi is, above all things, the 21st letter in the Greek alphabet, so it's hard to say who created it. However, the number commonly attached to it, the golden ratio, has a long history, starting with the mathematicians of Ancient Greece, and has been studied, used, and approximated ever since. Just a few of the mathematicians who studied Phi are Euclid, who gave the earliest known definition of the golden ratio; Kepler, who described it as one of the two greatest feats of mathematics (along with the Pythagorean Theorem); Michael Maestin, who was among the first to give a rough approximation of the golden ratio's value; and Mark Barr, who first used the letter Phi to describe the ratio.

So, I guess in the end the creation of Phi was sort of a group effort.

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