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Epic card · Science
Golden ratio, an Epic card
In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 860,000
Ranked #864 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Golden ratio quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Golden ratio card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The golden ratio was called the ______ and mean ratio by Euclid, and the divine proportion by Luca Pacioli, it also goes by other names.
Answer
extreme. The golden ratio was called the extreme and mean ratio by Euclid, and the divine proportion by Luca Pacioli, it also goes by other names. From the Golden ratio article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War 95 · Golden ratio 88 · Mohamed Atta 85 · Timeline of chemistry 81 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jensen Huang. Jensen Huang 2,700,000 · Golden ratio 860,000 · Timeline of chemistry 14,000 · U.S. Senate career of JD Vance 2,700 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Expressed algebraically, for quantities a and b with a > b > 0 , a is in a golden ratio to b if a + b a = a b = φ, where the Greek letter phi denotes the golden ratio.
- The constant φ satisfies the quadratic equation φ 2 = φ + 1 and is an irrational number with a value of φ = 1 + 5 2 = 1.618033988749....
- The golden ratio was called the extreme and mean ratio by Euclid, and the divine proportion by Luca Pacioli, it also goes by other names.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Golden ratio article was read about 860,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Golden ratio (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Traced by Stannered, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
