Math trivia: the "B."

[vikxin@beach.city]

@lcamtuf this might actually be true

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@lcamtuf I think this is in one of the standard cookie files that come with fortune.

[rubinjoni@mastodon.social]

@perhaps391 @lcamtuf Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot https://mastodon.social/@perhaps391/116070763482625428

[lori@cambrian.social]

@EricLawton @alice @lcamtuf I aspire to become a volunteer volunteer recruiter recruiter.

[lcamtuf@infosec.exchange]

@LordCaramac Not on my system. But it's an old joke.

$ fortune -a -m Mandel
%% (fortunes)
"A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension."
-- Mandelbrot, "The Fractal Geometry of Nature"
$

[trpeal@ohai.social]

@EricLawton @lcamtuf @alice
I bought a package of hardboiled eggs and the only ingredient listed was "eggs".

[mistermoo@mstdn.social]

@lcamtuf A post about Benoit Mandelbrot and not one reference to Mandelbrot Set by Jonathan Coulton? Getting sloppy millennials.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uluZMafXVE&t=82s&pp=2AFSkAIB

[jorsh@beige.party]

@lcamtuf

Underrated joke.

[minirop@shelter.moe]

@Jorsh @lcamtuf it might not be. Mandelbrot started adding the B. as a middle name but said it didn't meant anything. (so maybe he had that joke in mind)

source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/17/benoit-mandelbrot-obituary

[jwo@mastodonczech.cz]

@synlogic4242 @lcamtuf Mandelbrot was a ⊥?

[konej@akko.wtf]

@RavenLuni@furry.engineer @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange balls

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@stringlapse Hmm, almost. Since the pattern to be replaced, as per the original toot, is "B.", if we treat that dot as a regexp metacharacter, we get "benoit b. mandelbenoit b. mandelbrotot" @lcamtuf

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@vikxin The bit about the circumflex is easily explained. His family was Lithuanian, and he was born in Poland. They were not originally French. While Lithuanian and Polish orthography have numerous diacritics, the circumflex is not among them. It would be unlikely to be used in anyone's name, even if it was of foreign origin. This happens with French names used as English given names, too: Éric > Eric, François > Francis, Théodore > Theodore, Frédéric > Frederic, etc.

[kathmandu@stranger.social]

@lcamtuf

[elenlefoll@fediscience.org]

@lcamtuf Would like to see the proof. Please showing your workings.

[blort@social.tchncs.de]

@lcamtuf
Lol. True or not, that's awesome.

[gcolpart@mastodon.evolix.org]

@lcamtuf like GNU = GNU is Not Unix (in computer science)

[nettings@mastodon.social]

@RavenLuni @lcamtuf OMG. and you havent even gotten to the middle B yet! better buy some RAM!

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@lcamtuf OH. That is very clever

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@lcamtuf 🤌