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:

    They think how one life hums, revolves and toils,
    One cog in a golden singing hive:
    Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

    ... in every State there are more women who can read and write than the whole number of illiterate male voters; more white women who can read and write than all Negro voters; more American women who can read and write than all foreign voters.
    —National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)