# phi (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover phi. Page: Feed: --- ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4850 by Methuselah](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4850-by-methuselah/) _2026-08-22 · Cornick · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳⏳⏳ It’s very seldom that I give the full five egg-timers for difficulty, basically because I know we occasionally get puzzles like this. In truth, quite a few went in readily near the beginning – ROBIN GOODFELLOW was a helpful FOI for example, but it was the tricky endgame, especially \[…\] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4849 Tees](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4849-tees/) _2026-08-21 · Saboteur · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳ Three-quarters of this entertaining and enjoyable puzzle yielded fairly readily. The top right quadrant, however, took me rather longer, proportionately. There were three crossing answers which took a bit of working away at, one of them being the only recondite piece of vocabulary, the playwright, and the other two \[…\] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4848 by Eccles](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4848-by-eccles/) _2026-08-20 · jonofwales · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳ A fun and interested puzzle from Eccles this Thursday. AGELAST was new but easily solved, but at the other end of the scale we have AT A PINCH which was familiar but where I’m afraid my command of languages wasn’t sufficient to untangle the wordplay. Last in was the \[…\] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4847 by Wire](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4847-by-wire/) _2026-08-19 · Borodin · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of 5): ⌛⌛⌛ I got through this well inside my usual time so that I was tempted to rate it ⌛⌛½. However, I think it was just that I was in the right frame of mind for solving and others may well take a bit longer. I did wonder if there would \[…\] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4846 by Lark](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4846-by-lark/) _2026-08-18 · jonofwales · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳ A mixture of the very easy and things a little more chewy I thought. The NE corner I found to be more difficult than the rest – AGILITY and DRYERS causing some issues, especially on the parsing front. Isn’t Tuesday supposed to be theme day? I haven’t spotted one, \[…\] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4845 Filbert](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4845-filbert/) _2026-08-17 · Saboteur · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five ): ⏳⏳⏳⏳ Not as tough as he sometimes is, but nevertheless a challenging puzzle from Filbert this morning. After a surprisingly speedy start with my first half-dozen, I soon slowed to the plodding pace I expect of myself when tacking a puzzle like this. Strictly speaking, this was a Did \[…\] ## [The i Paper on Sunday Cryptic Crossword S0245 by Phi](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/the-i-paper-on-sunday-cryptic-crossword-s0245-by-phi/) _2026-08-16 · jonofwales · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳ A pleasant diversion from Phi that won t have taken too much time, unless you too were stuck on ORMERS, which I guessed but would never have parsed / got from definition. There s a Nina, apparently, which should have helped based on LIBRA in the unchecked middle row, but I \[ \] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4844 by Bluth](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4844-by-bluth/) _2026-08-15 · Cornick · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳ More clues in Bluth s characteristic style today amusing surface readings, multiple components to the wordplay, some lengthy clues, and a process whereby you often solve the clue first from definition and crossers perhaps and then try and work out the trickly wordplay afterwards. I m sure regulars \[ \] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4843 Wiglaf](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4843-wiglaf/) _2026-08-14 · Saboteur · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳⏳ Wiglaf has set us a rather challenging crossword for this morning. It was very absorbing, though, and I therefore felt a great deal of satisfaction on completing it. At least part of the challenge lay in there being a number of obscurities (to me, at least), which required googling \[ \] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4842 by Eccles](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4842-by-eccles/) _2026-08-13 · jonofwales · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳ A little rusty still after my holiday I was pleased to finish this in a nippy time, albeit here and there the parsing was less forthcoming than the answer. LOI was VERTEBRA, my blind spot for hidden words showing no signs of abating. Elsewhere ASYLEE was an odd if \[ \] ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Ew9FGOFJ5G0I) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4841 by Phi](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4841-by-phi/) _2026-08-12 · Borodin · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of 5): ⌛⌛⌛ Another ‘plain’ Phi crossword devoid of theme or nina – although I was mildly surprised that there wasn’t a theme when I saw the original publication date of 11th November, Armistice Day, the observance of which has been revived in recent years. I made a fairly brisk start on \[ \] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4840 by Laccaria](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4840-by-laccaria/) _2026-08-11 · jonofwales · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳ A debut today from Laccaria, so welcome! This is the first puzzle I ve solved in a few weeks, so suspect I was a little rusty, but still solved this in about an average time. There s lots of praise on the other side for 29/19/20 which is a great spot \[ \] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4839 Hoskins](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4839-hoskins/) _2026-08-10 · Saboteur · idothei_ Difficulty rating ( out of five): ⏳ A fun, accessible crossword from Hoskins to start of the new working week. This one won t have held up any but the freshest of beginners for too long. It was all pretty straightforward, and I made only one quick Google, for Muso, a bit of slang I d not \[ \] ## [The i App Cryptic Crossword S0244 by Phi](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/the-i-app-cryptic-crossword-s0244-by-phi/) _2026-08-09 · Cornick · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳ Actually, this probably wasn t as easy as ⏳⏳implies, but I rattled through it in next to no time, so I thought I d use the difficulty rating to show off the fact At least you can t accuse me of not being honest! Of course I missed the theme though \[ \] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4838 by Rodriguez](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4838-by-rodriguez/) _2026-08-08 · Cornick · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳⏳ High quality, high difficulty, for the second day in a row. Rodriguez isn t quite as hard as Nimrod, but he s getting there so perhaps four-and-a-half for difficulty would be called for today. Certainly there were a couple that were extremely hard to parse even after solving; I m thinking \[ \] ## [The i Paper Cryptic Crossword 4837 Nimrod](https://idothei.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/the-i-paper-cryptic-crossword-4837-nimrod/) _2026-08-07 · Saboteur · idothei_ Difficulty rating (out of five): ⏳⏳⏳⏳⏳ This was very difficult. If more ⏳s were available on our grading scale I might have rated it a six or potentially even a seven. Some people on Fifteensquared said that it was easier than that, but I didn t think so. Even so, it was brilliant. 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Al doilea cel mai bun timp este acum. (Anonim) Acum aproape 30 de ani, fostul nostru coleg de liceu Cătălin Stoichița, a venit în vizită la Montreal și a sunat la ușă cu un mic băț cu trei ramuri în vârf. Mi-a zis: “M-am gândit ce să-ți aduc și mi-am zis că cel mai bine ar fi să-ți aduc un măr. O… ## [Conic Map Projections](https://neacsu.net/geodesy/snyder/4-conic/single/) _2025-05-08 · Introduction on Eu, Mircea_ CONIC MAP PROJECTIONS # Cylindrical projections are used primarily for complete world maps, or for maps along narrow strips of a great circle arc, such as the Equator, a meridian, or an oblique great circle. To show a region for which the greatest extent is from east to west in the temperate zones, conic projections are usually preferable to cylindrical projections. Normal conic projections are… ## [The Dan Numbers](https://neacsu.net/posts/nd/) _2025-03-06 · Introduction on Eu, Mircea_ Programming a solution to a math puzzle ## [NVIDIA Quatro RTX 4000 Support Passthrough on Windows 11 Pro Hyper-V](https://neacsu.net/posts/nvidia_passthrough/) _2025-01-24 · Introduction on Eu, Mircea_ A friend found this solution ## [GoAccess - Apache2 Log Analyzer](https://neacsu.net/posts/goaccess/) _2025-01-08 · Introduction on Eu, Mircea_ Use GoAccess to generate web server log reports ## [Pi is 3.1446 per “Measuring Pi Squaring Phi” by Harry Lear—Reviewed](https://www.goldennumber.net/pi-is-3-1446-measuring-pi-squaring-phi-harry-lear-reviewed/) _2025-01-02 · Gary Meisner · The Golden Ratio: Phi, 1.618_ Overview Here s a shocking blow to the world of mathematics! A growing number of sources claim that the established value of Pi (π), 3.14159…, is incorrect. They propose instead an alternate value, claiming that Pi is 3.1446…, derived from 4 divided by the square root of the golden ratio and shown as π=4/√φ. It seems \[ \] The post Pi is 3.1446 per Measuring Pi Squaring Phi by Harry Lear—Reviewed… ## [A Small, Inconsequential, Mystery](https://neacsu.net/posts/auth_lat/) _2024-10-27 · Introduction on Eu, Mircea_ Questions the choice of initial value for inverse authalic latitude function ## [Pi = 3.14159… vs Pi = 3.1446… – Circumference solution](https://www.goldennumber.net/pi-314159-vs-pi-31446-circumference-solution/) _2024-10-06 · Gary Meisner · The Golden Ratio: Phi, 1.618_ A simple but conclusive method to prove empirically that Pi is 3.14159, and not 3.1446 with an Excel model that calculates the length of the circles circumference using only the Pythagorean theorem. 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