At the risk of getting completely geeky, it occurs to me that this is going to work with any three successive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence (e.g. rearranging an 8*21 rectangle into a 13*13 square) with the gap getting proportionately tinier and the “proof” more convincing as you climb the sequence. The Golden Section pops up again…
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At the risk of getting completely geeky, it occurs to me that this is going to work with any three successive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence (e.g. rearranging an 8*21 rectangle into a 13*13 square) with the gap getting proportionately tinier and the “proof” more convincing as you climb the sequence. The Golden Section pops up again…
Completely geeky, but brilliant nonetheless!