Golden mean

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Golden mean may mean:

  • Doctrine of the Golden Mean ((Chinese: 中庸; pinyin: Zhōng Yóng), a chapter in Li Ji, one of the "Four Books" of classical Confucian writings
  • Golden mean (philosophy), in philosophy the felicitous middle between two extremes, one of excess and one of deficiency
  • The golden ratio of mathematics, a specific ratio between two quantities, known sometimes as the golden mean
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