Tangerine Dream
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Tangerine they are great - I'm a bit brain dead today so could you explain the Golden Ratio equation for me (not the picture) but the equation? IF your looking for a bit of work (with zero payment other than my eternal's) then we really need some updates on PR but can't afford to pay anyone.
Cheers man.
Put simply the golden ratio (and the Fibonacci sequence, which is closely connected) is a mathematical ratio/sequence of numbers which seems to be found throughout nature, plants, animals, people, atoms etc. It has been used by people throughout history, in architecture, paintings/drawings, music etc. etc. Although there is debate as to whether some artists/architects really did incorporate it into their work. But it's a good start if you are interested in these sorts of things.
(See links at bottom of my post)
The golden ratio has fascinated Western intellectuals of diverse interests for at least 2,400 years. According to Mario Livio:
Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.
Adolf Zeising, whose main interests were mathematics and philosophy, found the golden ratio expressed in the arrangement of branches along the stems of plants and of veins in leaves. He extended his research to the skeletons of animals and the branchings of their veins and nerves, to the proportions of chemical compounds and the geometry of crystals, even to the use of proportion in artistic endeavors. In these phenomena he saw the golden ratio operating as a universal law.[53]
In connection with his scheme for golden-ratio-based human body proportions, Zeising wrote in 1854 of a universal law "in which is contained the ground-principle of all formative striving for beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates, as a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions, whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical; which finds its fullest realization, however, in the human form."[54]
In 2010, the journal Science reported that the golden ratio is present at the atomic scale in the magnetic resonance of spins in cobalt niobate crystals.[55]
Several researchers have proposed connections between the golden ratio and human genome DNA.[56][57][58]
It appearance in geometry quite a bit.
The number φ turns up frequently in geometry, particularly in figures with pentagonal symmetry. The length of a regular pentagon's diagonal is φ times its side. The vertices of a regular icosahedron are those of three mutually orthogonal golden rectangles.
Pyramids..
Michael Rice[78] asserts that principal authorities on the history of Egyptian architecture have argued that the Egyptians were well acquainted with the golden ratio and that it is part of mathematics of the Pyramids, citing Giedon (1957).[79] Historians of science have always debated whether the Egyptians had any such knowledge or not, contending rather that its appearance in an Egyptian building is the result of chance.[80]
In 1859, the pyramidologist John Taylor claimed that, in the Great Pyramid of Giza, the golden ratio is represented by the ratio of the length of the face (the slope height), inclined at an angle θ to the ground, to half the length of the side of the square base, equivalent to the secant of the angle θ.[81] The above two lengths were about 186.4 and 115.2 meters respectively. The ratio of these lengths is the golden ratio, accurate to more digits than either of the original measurements. Similarly, Howard Vyse, according to Matila Ghyka,[82] reported the great pyramid height 148.2 m, and half-base 116.4 m, yielding 1.6189 for the ratio of slant height to half-base, again more accurate than the data variability.
More maths in nature:
Fibonacci sequences appear in biological settings,[8] in two consecutive Fibonacci numbers, such as branching in trees, arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruitlets of a pineapple,[9] the flowering of artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone.[10] In addition, numerous poorly substantiated claims of Fibonacci numbers or golden sections in nature are found in popular sources, e.g., relating to the breeding of rabbits in Fibonacci's own unrealistic example, the seeds on a sunflower, the spirals of shells, and the curve of waves.[51] The Fibonacci numbers are also found in the family tree of honeybees.[52]
Related stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing (Legend, up there with Tesla as on of my favorite, often underapreaciated great men of history. Was mega fucked up how he died
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoît_Mandelbrot (Discovered fractals, which makes him great in my eyes!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals
What sort of work do you need doing on pillreports? I might be able to help out a bit, but it really depends on the amount of work!
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's) then we really need some updates on PR but can't afford to pay anyone.

-way too early for me! I need food - probably a few hours more sleep :D. (thank you for the explanation - will probably make more sense to me later)