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Monday, October 18, 2010

BBC News - How Mandelbrot's fractals changed the world

BBC News - How Mandelbrot's fractals changed the world
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This blog reflects initial prototyping for my creation of a subject area blog. The lower section contains blogs that I publicly follow. The 'core' middle section contains specific re-posts of specific interest, related comments, or original postings of my authorized posters. If you care to post, or have any suggestions, or comments, etc., please e-mail me.
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