Right Triangle - Relation To Various Means and The Golden Ratio

Relation To Various Means and The Golden Ratio

Let H, G, and A be the harmonic mean, the geometric mean, and the arithmetic mean of two positive numbers a and b with a > b. If a right triangle has legs H and G and hypotenuse A, then

and

where is the golden ratio

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