Da Vinci 's Sakrileg

Is phi a mystical number as claimed in The Da Vinci Code?

"I just finished Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code, about a thousand-year-old conspiracy involving the Catholic church. While the modern murder mystery part of the book is obviously fictional, you're encouraged to believe that the historical background is authentic. As a Straight Dope reader I know otherwise, so I'm not going to ask about hanky-panky between Jesus and Mary Magdalene (unlikely), the Holy Grail (a literary invention), or the Priory of Sion (too much like the Illuminati). What intrigued me was phi, also known as the Divine Proportion, a mystical ratio the book claims shows up everywhere in nature and art. I remember enough about the golden section and Fibonacci numbers, which also figure in the book and are related to phi somehow, to know that some of this is legit. But phi itself is new to me. What's the straight dope on this magic number? --Ryan Joseph, Chicago"


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