UPDATE: See the bottom of this post for new, higher definition, full-colour fractals!
While messing around with factorials, I stumbled across some unexpected and elegant fractal images.
UPDATE: See the bottom of this post for new, higher definition, full-colour fractals!
While messing around with factorials, I stumbled across some unexpected and elegant fractal images.
The other day, I did a mini-investigation into an interesting maths tweet from Cliff Pickover. Here’s another:
Scream! The string 79873884 1st occurs in Pi at position 79873884, counting from 1st digit after the decimal point. pic.twitter.com/kcASDJSV1A
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) April 21, 2015
This fact is beautiful, but is it surprising?
This rather elegant fact has been going round on Twitter:
“It can’t be true … can it?” Rachael Formula. More info/discussion: http://t.co/gh6Lt76si1 pic.twitter.com/sDc547kEyV
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) April 15, 2015
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However, there are other examples of this phenomenon…