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Golden right triangles and the golden quadrilateral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

Aldo Scimone
Aldo Scimone*
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Via Costantino Nigra 30, 90141 Palermo (Sicily), e-mail: aldoscimone@outlook.it
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A golden right triangle of first type is a right triangle such that the shortest side is the golden section of the hypotenuse as defined in [1], [2]. If we consider a golden rectangle and one of its diagonals, we obtain a right triangle with the shortest side being the golden section of the other side; this right triangle will be named golden right triangle of second type.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 106 , Issue 565 , March 2022 , pp. 9 - 20
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© The Authors, 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mathematical Association

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