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:

    Your golden hair Margarete
    your ashen hair Shulamith.
    Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

    In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)