Golden number may mean:
- Golden number (time), a number assigned to a calendar year denoting its place in a Metonic cycle
- Golden ratio, an irrational mathematical constant with special properties in arts and mathematics
Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or number:
“But wishes breed not, neither
Can we fend off rock arrival,
Lie watching yellow until the golden weather
Breaks, O my heart’s blood, like a heart and hill.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)