Most people rarely deal with irrational numbers as it would be irrational. But these unwieldy numbers have plagued mathematicians since the ancient Greeks. Now, though, a nearly 80-year-old quandary about how well they can be approximated has been solved. Many people conceptualize irrational numbers by rounding them to fractions or decimals: estimating π as 3.14, which … Continue reading Golden Ratio Solved with Magical Simplicity