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Re:Golden powers are nearly integers by jacobolus on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:28PM (#13935613)
> start with -1/phi = 1-phi and use phi=(sqrt(5)+1)/2.

This is the same fact twice. (Well, the second part is just one of the two roots of the polynomial equation x^2 = x + 1.)

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Re:Golden powers are nearly integers by tgb on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:34PM (#13936094)
Doesn't mean you can't use both of them!
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Re:Golden powers are nearly integers by nurettin on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @09:14PM (#13936674)
Proof by hindsight!
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Re:Golden powers are nearly integers by posterboy on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:43PM (#13942803)
fact comes from to do ... thoese aren't the same operations being done
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