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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • captainjaneway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Resolution limits

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nonsense. Good gardeners trim to the subatomic level

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    • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It would still take a while to edge individual blades of grass

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does the ‘B’ in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?

    Benoit B. Mandelbrot

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ‘I’m so meta even this acronym’

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • prof@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • TheControlled@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try Canada on for size.

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  • QProphecy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The devil is in the details.

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  • khuldraeseth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes

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    • Subverb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.

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      • Bolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not in a finite space, no. But it could have infinite detail without infinite length (like the square with corners folded in to approximate a circle).

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mandlebrotwurst. Infinite sausage.

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  • 42yeah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • comrade19@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can someone explain pls

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    • Frenchy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This 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 pretty much impossible.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.

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    • Callmesuperman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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”

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

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      • comrade19@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thankyou. Even as a concept I find it creepy

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  • RavenFellBlade@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pathological monsters!

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    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A splinter in my eye

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It definitelly doesn’t pay to be detail-oriented when doing a fractal lawn…

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just more turtles all the way down.

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