What is 1.618?

1.618 is like having two pieces of candy that are just right compared to each other, not too big, not too small.

Imagine you have a rectangle, and you want it to look really nice. If the longer side is about 1.618 times as long as the shorter one, it looks super balanced. This special number is called the golden ratio.

Let’s say you have two piles of candy: one with 5 pieces and another with 3 pieces. Now, if you add 2 more candies to the bigger pile, making it 7 candies total, the new pile (7) is now about 1.618 times as big as the smaller pile (4). It’s like a perfect candy comparison!

Think of your favorite notebook. If its length and width match this golden ratio, it feels really comfortable to write in, kind of like how you feel when you get just the right number of candies in your lunchbox.

So, 1.618 is not a magic number, it’s a very balanced way that things can be sized compared to each other, whether in candy piles or rectangles!