Golden Number

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:

    “Capital is money, capital is commodities.... By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)