I've been reading about the number, and I've studied how to find PHI in numerous situations. But it still confuses me. The internet is confusing me, and I need some other help. How exactly do you find PHI in a situation? Please, give me examples of PHI. Thank you.

http://www.saliu.com/bbs/messages/958.html

Quotes from the above site: " My web site is the reason she decided to share with me the tightest secret in human civilization. In turn, I promised to make public extraordinary information via the Internet.

When the most precise atomic clock beams exactly 00:00:00 3.14, Almighty Number visits with the President of the United States. The President himself bakes a large apple pie. Procuring the ingredients is an extraordinary operation d'état. It is code named Newton's Pie. Almighty Number cuts it into the perfect circle. Then, Its Almighty slices it into portions precisely calculated by the “Golden Number” or “Divine Proportion”.

Almighty Number always gets to eat the 61.8% slice. Even though represents only 38.2% of the divine pie, the presidential slice is quite impressive by human standards. Not all Presidents have been able to eat entirely the presidential slices of the pie. Legend has it that skinny Abe Lincoln would have gained reasonable weight, had he eaten to the last bite his presidential slices of the Newtonian pie."

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This is a more relevant website: http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi.html#golden

Furthermore, who says Phi is Divine? Are not all numbers that make up all things Divine then? Oh but this number is amazing! Really? Do you just want to make 2 cry? You wish to make 392384924.234234 weep?!

Firstly, the people in Mad Scientists would be far more helpful in answering any questions you have about phi (the golden number).

As to where it comes from, it can be found in many, many places. The easiest to conceptualize is the golden rectangle.

Golden Rectangle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rectangle)

I decided the whole "OMGWTFBBQ PHI" concept was bullshit after watching the movie Pi: Faith in Chaos.

Phi is seen in biology. It's interesting to see how the ratio appears naturally, but numbers like e and pi are much more useful and applicable to many more things.

The fibonnaci series:

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144...

To get the next term, add the previous two terms together. To get phi, divide two adjascent terms. The higher the term, the more accurate phi will be.

eg. 89/144 = 0.618056

and 144/89 = 1.617978

= the two values of phi.