Five Circles and the Golden Ratio
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Place five circles of diameter symmetrically about a given point. They intersect the unit circle at the vertices of a regular pentagon when
or
, where &straightpi; is the golden ratio, 1.61803….
Contributed by: Sándor Kabai (October 2007)
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Published: October 3 2007