Mandelbrot set discovered in 13th century by Benedictine monk

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36 points·amichail··9 comments

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

"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.

"...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.

So did you notice it's a joke?

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

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

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

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You're welcome.

Also see:

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

I knew that buckfast was good for something.

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