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Anonymous Fri Jul 17 21:45:20 2015 No.7403101 [Reply] [Original]

what are mandelbrot sets good for

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 21:46:22 2015 No.7403105 The same as 98% of the rest of mathematics nothing

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 21:50:31 2015 No.7403117 The same as 98% of the rest of mathematics reaching the youth

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 21:53:04 2015 No.7403123 The same as 98% of the rest of mathematics mental masterbation

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 21:54:37 2015 No.7403131 Illustrating the complexity of dynamical systems to babby.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 21:59:08 2015 No.7403149 >>7403131 can they model things in real life?

>>	NeHe Typo Fri Jul 17 22:00:14 2015 No.7403152 - Starting philosophical discussions. - Art. - The associated math may be useful when applied to technology some day. - Influencing tessellation mapping for video games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 22:01:37 2015 No.7403155 >>7403149 Plenty. The mandelbrot set is more closely associated with the subfield of complex dynamics though, which to my limited knowledge is less useful.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 22:02:33 2015 No.7403160 stoners and mathfags

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 22:17:25 2015 No.7403211 >>7403149 Mandelbrot set specifically idk but fractal metrics can be applied to things like cities http://each.uspnet.usp.br/sistcomplexos/SC1/Fractal/FractalUrbanAreas.pdf