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Pi and the Mandelbrot Set - Numberphile

Pi and the Mandelbrot Set - Numberphile

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3 HN recommenders · discussed 2017–2019
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About this video

Numberphile with Dr Holly Krieger shows how the digits of pi surprisingly emerge from the Mandelbrot set. A short, accessible math explainer.

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Recommended whenever the Mandelbrot set comes up, as a neat and surprising result.

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From the Hacker News discussion

elamje · 2019-09 · strong rec

My absolute favorite numberphile video is how pi occurs in a peculiar way with Riemann Zeta/Mandelbrot. Maybe it only amazes me because I don’t have a PhD in math, but it just seemed so strange how pi shows up in this video. [VIDEO]

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kpil · 2017-03 · rec

I really enjoyed this video with Dr Holly Krieger of Numberphile. [LINK] There are a few more videos related to PI and The Mandelbrot set, Julia, etc. All nice to watch. [VIDEO]

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throwawaymath · 2019-05 · rec

When you begin with z = k i - 0.75, you can obtain an arbitrarily good approximation of pi by multiplying the p for which f_p(z) = z^2 + z diverges by k . The approximation increases in precision as k tends to 0. There's a neat video explaining it here: [VIDEO]

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