Yet more clouds I fear!
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
Benoit Mandelbrot. 1924-2010. Polish Mathematician. Author of the term Fractal.
I have always thought that Mandelbrot must be a wonderful surname to have. My enthusiasm for the name was a bit dented, but only slightly, when I discovered that it translates as almond bread.
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