Math trivia: the "B."

[mdreid@mastodon.social]

@lcamtuf @cstross This is a common misconception. The “B.” here is really the set of all expansions for which Benoit B. Mandelbrot converges (e.g., when “B.” stands for “Gaston M. Julia”).

[risottobias@toot.risottobias.org]

@lcamtuf @catsalad [adds to my infinite set at the hilbert hotel]

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@lcamtuf

There is a book in the Library of Babel that confirms this!

[saua@troet.cafe]

@simonzerafa @lcamtuf there's another book in there with a very elegant counter proof that was too long to put into the margins of the first vook

[owiller@mastodon.sdf.org]

@lcamtuf No, it stands for Benoit B. Mandlebrot if you look closely.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@saua @lcamtuf

Ah but the Ship of Thesus just sailed past to disprove that argument!

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@lcamtuf Bonus trivia: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski" is an anagram of "Banach-Tarski"

[demallien@mindly.social]

@lcamtuf it would be funnier if the B stood for Benoit B, not Benoit

[stringlapse@tech.lgbt]

@lcamtuf benoit b mandelbenoit b mandelbrotrot

[forkidork@theforkiverse.com]

@lcamtuf

[ravenluni@furry.engineer]

@lcamtuf Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit ...........
-- stack overflow.

[ag7gm@mastodon.radio]

@lcamtuf LOL.

How meta.

[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.