Inspiring and Creative Resources & Tutorials for Science-Curious People
3,139,971,973,786,634,711,391,448,651,577,269,485,891,759,419,122,938,744,591,877,656,925,789,747,974,914,319,422,889,611,373,939,731 produces reversible primes in each row, column and diagonal when distributed in a 10×10 square.
Diagram by HT Jens Kruse Andersen.
Two moving tangent circles can trace ellipses
The three blue points always lie on a straight line. The blue points are the closest points to the moving red point on the lines. In other words the blue points are the projections of the moving red point to the lines.
A “Kepler triangle” is a right triangle having edge lengths in a geometric progression, in which the common ratio is √ϕ, where ϕ represents the golden ratio.
Well, let’s construct a square with side length √ϕ that inscribes a Kepler triangle, that is, a right triangle with edges 1 : √ϕ : ϕ (or approximately 1 : 1.272 : 1.618), as shown in the picture. Draw then the circumcircle of the Kepler triangle (highlighted in orange in the picture) whose diameter is the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Then, the perimeters of the square (4√ϕ≈5.0884) and the circle (πϕ≈5.083) coincide up to an error less than 0.1%. From this, we can get the approximation coincidence π≈4/√ϕ
The sum of the squares of consecutive Fibonacci numbers is another Fibonacci number.
Doesn’t fit? Reconstruct!
The picture below shows the ONLY one pair of triangles with the following properties:
· One triangle is a right triangle and one is isosceles,
· All side lengths of both triangles are rational numbers, and
· The perimeters and areas of both triangles are equal.
