There are so many things that we look at in nature and say, hey look, there's the golden

ratio, or there's a golden spiral, a naturally occurring spiral where each wrap of the curve

is tighter by a ratio defined by the golden ratio, the value of one to feed.

Only in nearly all such cases we're wrong, there's way more urban legend than fact.

And the idea of golden spirals in nature.

The golden ratio is coming up next, on Skeptoid.

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The golden ratio.

You've probably heard that for thousands of years mankind has been fascinated by the

golden ratio, which is the value of one to fee, pronounced fee in the United States and

its native Greek, and phi in many other countries.

phi is about 1.618.

It's an irrational number that goes on forever and is defined as 1 plus the square root of

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