<table><tr><td style="">paolini added a comment.
</td><a style="text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 8px; margin: 0 8px 8px; float: right; color: #464C5C; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#fff,#f1f0f1); display: inline-block; border: 1px solid rgba(71,87,120,.2);" href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D12913">View Revision</a></tr></table><br /><div><div><p>As you see... most (if not all) of the figures representing the golden section show the larger segment on the left. And when you say<br />
"short to long equals long to whole", this is simply the result of a phrase where the subject is actually the "long", something like<br />
"the long is 'in between' the whole and the rest".<br />
Moreover you could as well say<br />
"whole to long equals long to short" (and I would prefer this latter phrasing as more corresponding to the definition:</p>
<p>"A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser"<br />
[taken from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio</a> - I guess this is from Euclid's "elements"]</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R331 Kig</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D12913">https://phabricator.kde.org/D12913</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>bourquin<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>paolini, kde-edu, narvaez, apol<br /></div>