Golden Ratio Base - Representing Irrational Numbers of Note As Golden Ratio Base Numbers

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“... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,—with woman figuratively representing freedom—and yet all free, save woman.”
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“It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

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