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Hello.  Thank you for reading my post.  I figured that I would write something completely fun, without any reference to all of the serious issues on some of the other forums.  

Does anyone see the poetry of the Golden mean?  It is an irrational number, but I will estimate it to the sixth decimal place:

  1.618034

Those of you who do not quite remember, the Golden mean is the positive number that is itself squared minus one.  It shows up all over nature, and connects to the Fibonacci sequence in that the ratio of each number in the Fibonacci sequence to the number right before it gets closer and closer to the Golden mean as the sequence approaches Infinity.  

Artists as well as mathematicians love the Golden mean.  The Greeks thought it was awesome. I fell in love with it over the summer time.  

Say anything cool about it you want, or even something that is not so much a mathematical fact as something in your mind.  I will start by stating that, as I have estimated it to the sixth decimal place, we begin with a "16".  We then have "18".  Together they add up to "34", which is found at the end.

Ok, so here's the poetry:

16 is a number that I connect to Divine Mercy.  I will not go in to that too deeply, but it is a personal view of 16.  "18" signifies Life in the Hebrew tradition.  34 happens to be how old I am.  Go figure!