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At the June 1998 workshop on the architecture of Andrea Palladio, the dimensions of the rooms were much remarked. Vera Spinadel convincingly argues that Palladio used precise mathematical relationships as a basis for selecting the numerical dimensions for the rooms in this villas. The integer dimensions are demonstrated to be approximants linked to continued equations, and a particular way of deriving these integers through the use of a continued fraction expansion that approximates by excess is introduced.
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de Spinadel, V.W. “Triangulature” in Andrea Palladio. Nexus Netw J 1, 117–120 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-998-0010-4
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