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[–] 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago

    I actually met Benoit Mandelbrot when I was an intern at IBM's T. J. Watson research center in the late '80s. I was randomly walking around the building and passed by a tiny office with "B. Mandelbrot" on the door. I stuck my head in, saw an old bald dude sitting there and said "are you the Bernard Mandelbrot?" He said "yes" and I said "oh" and walked on. Apparently he didn't hear that I said "Bernard" instead of "Benoit".

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What does the 'B' in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?

    Benoit B. Mandelbrot

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    this is a draft, the cartoonist is still working on the third panel

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Semi related: There's a cool rabbit hole you can dive into when it comes to coastline lengths of some countries. Specifically the UK.

    Depending on who measured the coastline and with which method the results can be wildly different because there's always some form of simplification required. See this video for example: Link

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    The devil is in the details.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Not a mathematician fractologist. Does the boundary have infinite length, or just infinite detail?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Mandlebrotwurst. Infinite sausage.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Don’t look closer, or you won’t be able to come out ever again.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    This shape is a fractal made from the Mandelbrot set. I guess the joke is that the more you zoom in the edges the more detail there is, so doing them would be an impossibly infinite task. https://mander.xyz/post/8966692[More info on the Mandelbrot set here.](https://mander.xyz/post/8966692)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    From the mandelbrot boundary wiki: "Images of the Mandelbrot set exhibit an infinitely complicated boundary that reveals progressively ever-finer recursive detail at increasing magnifications"

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It definitelly doesn't pay to be detail-oriented when doing a fractal lawn...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Just more turtles all the way down.

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