Category: Metallic means

Silver ratio
In mathematics, two quantities are in the silver ratio (or silver mean) if the ratio of the smaller of those two quantities to the larger quantity is the same as the ratio of the larger quantity to th
Metallic mean
The metallic means (also ratios or constants) of the successive natural numbers are the continued fractions: The golden ratio (1.618...) is the metallic mean between 1 and 2, while the silver ratio (2