'Golden Ratio' is also Linked to the most fertile wombs

Those who are still childless can benefit from Dr. Jasper Verguts,
from the University Hospital Leuven in Belgium, theory that women are most fertile when they are aged between 16-20, so they can marry to a woman between age bracket mentioned above and enjoy the bestowment of God.

What is 'Golden Ratio?'  It is the number 1.618 which has been plucked from the famous Fibonacci sequence. What is Fibonacci sequence? It is this sequence in which each number is the sum of the previous two, so it beings  0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. If you take two successive numbers their ratio is very close to 1.618.


This isn't that impressive on its own. Until you realise that this ratio is the key to everything from encrypting computer data, to the numbers of spirals on a sunflower head, our own limbs and why the Mona Lisa is so pleasing to the eye.

Dr Jasper Verguts, has theorised that women would be most fertile if they had a uterus of perfect proportions. By this he meant a womb where the ratio of length to width is 1.618.  He measured the wombs of 5,000 women using ultrasound and drew up a table of the average ratio of length to width for different age bands.

Dr Verguts found that the ratio is around two at birth but this decreases as women age to 1.46. He was delighted to find that the age when women are most fertile on average - between the ages of 16 to 20 - the ratio was 1.6.

Speaking to Alex Bellos at The Guardian, he said: 'This is the first time anyone has looked at this, so I am pleased it turned out so nicely.' The ratio of 1.618 has already been found externally all over the human body. It usually marks the proportion of your hand to your forearm and your wingspan (outstretched arms) to your height.

The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo Fibonacci, an Italian born around 1170 who popularised the concept in the West. There has been speculation that Leonardo Da Vinci used the sequence as the proportions of the Mona Lisa's face also fit the ratio. Many claim that the most aesthetically pleasing people have faces that fit these ratios.

However, mathematical experts including Keith Devlin at Stanford University, have contested Dan Brown's claim that Da Vinci used the 'golden ratio' in his painting of the Vitruvian Man.