Talk:Omega constant

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letter The fact that it is called the omega function makes me think someone mistook the letter ω, a vowel, for the letter w, because of visual similarity. Is that what happened? Michael Hardy 20:42, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Comparison to the golden ratio

"It has properties that are akin to those of the golden ratio, in that

e^{-\Omega}=\Omega,\,

or equivalently,

ln(1 / Ω) = Ω."

I'm not sure I can see any similarity to the golden ration here. Should this be obvious? :/ Woscafrench (talk) 01:00, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

One way to express the similarity in exact terms is as follows: if we replace f(x)=e^x with its linear approximation f(x)=x-1 then the solution to the equation f(x)=1/x would be golden ratio.  Grue  15:36, 26 November 2007 (UTC)