by Reginald King Mark Bebbington THE resurgence of light music both on disc and latterly in the concert hall-thanks to conductors like John Wilson-has been a phenomenon of the last 20 years.
Golden Ratio. The golden ratio (symbol is the Greek letter phi shown at left) is a special number approximately equal to 1.618. It appears many times in geometry, art, architecture and other areas.
8 Ã· 5 = 1.6. 13 Ã· 8 = 1.625. Keep going and the result gets closer and closer to a number known as the golden ratio. Made from the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio begins as 1.6180339887 and continues without repeating or ending.