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Re: Why calculate Mandelbrot area?

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From: Jon Noring
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1993 16:27
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In article Robert P Munafo <mrob@WORLD.STD.COM> writes:
>Someone else writes:
>>What happens when the Mandelbrot Set's area is calculated?!  What are you
>>going to do with that information?  Does it have any practical applications
>>in the real world?

>It is simply a mathematical constant which has a specific value.  It is
>"universal" in that all intelligent races are likely to encounter it at
>some point in their development.  A few people on the Internet have decided
>that they would like to be the first Humans of Earth to compute it.  How's
>that for an answer?  (-:

Hear!  Hear!

Jon "Why calculate it?  Because it's there!" Noring


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From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Re: Why calculate Mandelbrot area?
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