Mandelbrot set discovered in 13th century by Benedictine monk

http://www.raygirvan.co.uk/apoth/udo.htm

by amichail • 18 years ago

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Also see:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=98615

amichail2• 18 years ago

Also see:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/Story?id=98615

amichail2• 18 years ago

So did you notice it's a joke?

maximilian• 18 years ago

Cheeky bastard. I was thoroughly impressed! I had to look back and see the publication date.

xirium• 18 years ago

April Fools Day is almost upon us. This certainly beats the island of San Serife ( http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-54600165.html ).

moog• 18 years ago

Yes. What are the odds that this guy also wrote the theme from the Old Spice surfing ad?

henning• 18 years ago

How to view this site without clawing out your eyes (requires Web Developer extension for Firefox):

Right click the page. Web Developer > Disable > Disable Page Colors.

Then hit ctrl-+ once or twice to make the text a readable size.

You're welcome.

nickb• 18 years ago

"...in the collection of mediaeval underground verses now known as the Carmina Burana."

Hah! I looked at the pics and scanned the article and started reading... I knew something was wrong when I read that line above. It's all a joke.

acorscadden• 18 years ago

I knew that buckfast was good for something.

adoyle• 18 years ago

"This was a labour of faith, and Udo was prepared to work for years. Some slowly-converging pixels must have taken weeks."

Actually, what he doesn't take into account is that in the early 1200's, Brother Elias of Cortona developed MapReduce, which allowed the calculations to be spread among the vast network of monasteries that existed in that time. Monks willingly took breaks from the painstaking work of illuminating manuscripts to each calculate a few pixels' worth of the solution.

Mandelbrot set discovered in 13th century by Benedictine monk

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