File:Ptolemy Pentagon.svg

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English: Application of Ptolemy's theorem to the quadrilateral made by removing a vertex from a regular pentagon yields b/a = phi, the golden ratio. This drawing illustrates it.
Date Uploaded by en:User:Dicklyon to en.wikipedia in August 2006 (log).
Source Own work by en:User:Dicklyon
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current04:29, 16 February 2008Thumbnail for version as of 04:29, 16 February 2008526 × 526 (10 KB)Stotr (talk | contribs)This is a graphic by en:User:Dicklyon which shows an application of Ptolemy's theorem to the quadrilateral made by removing a vertex from a regular pentagon yields b/a = phi, the golden ratio. He released it into the public domain; see http://en.wiki

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