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October 19th, 2010

How long is the coast of Britain?

I heard this morning that Benoît B. Mandelbrot died over the weekend. Dr. Mandelbrot developed the theory of fractal geometry. Here's a picture of the set that bears his name:

Mandelbrot

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By Steve Eddins

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  1. Christian replied on October 20th, 2010 at 03:05 UTC :

    My favorite cite “Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line” (Mandelbrot, 1983).

    Definitely a great mind!
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Steve Eddins is a software development manager in the MATLAB and image processing areas at MathWorks. Steve coauthored Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB. He writes here about image processing concepts, algorithm implementations, and MATLAB.

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