Resolution limits
Nonsense. Good gardeners trim to the subatomic level
It would still take a while to edge individual blades of grass
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”.
What does the ‘B’ in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
‘I’m so meta even this acronym’
this is a draft, the cartoonist is still working on the third panel
The devil is in the details.
Not a
mathematicianfractologist. Does the boundary have infinite length, or just infinite detail?Yes
It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.
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).
Can someone explain pls
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”
Thankyou. Even as a concept I find it creepy
https://mandelbrot.site/ Nature is beautiful. :)
Just more turtles all the way down.
It definitelly doesn’t pay to be detail-oriented when doing a fractal lawn…
