the.com/ratio

The math your replies lose when the quote-tweets outnumber the likes.

means A relationship between two quantities showing how many times one contains or compares to the other, often expressed as 'x to y' or a fraction.

from Straight from Latin 'ratio,' meaning 'reckoning, calculation, reason' — itself from 'reri,' to think or compute. The same root quietly powers 'rational' and 'reason.' For centuries it lived a tidy mathematical life, until social media drafted it into combat: to be 'ratioed' is to have your reply outnumbered by the replies dunking on it, the cruelest reckoning of all.

golden one
1.618 haunts seashells, galaxies, and Renaissance paintings
ancient roots
Euclid formalized ratios over 2,000 years ago
aspect kind
16:9 decides what your screen looks like
social weapon
Online, a bad ratio means public defeat
pi reality
It's just circumference divided by diameter
for instance

golden ratio — approximately 1.618, found in nautilus shells, da vinci's mona lisa, and architecture since ancient greece

debt-to-income ratio — mortgage lending standard: banks require <43% dti in usa

the.com · every word