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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 54 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".

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

Resolution limits

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago

Nonsense. Good gardeners trim to the subatomic level

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 45 points 2 years ago

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

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

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

[-] QProphecy@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

The devil is in the details.

[-] prof@infosec.pub 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Try Canada on for size.

[-] khuldraeseth@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 21 points 2 years ago

Yes

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Bolt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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).

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 2 years ago

Mandlebrotwurst. Infinite sausage.

[-] 42yeah@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Can someone explain pls

[-] Frenchy@aussie.zone 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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)

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years 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.

[-] Callmesuperman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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"

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