Math trivia: the "B."

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@saua @lcamtuf

Ah but the Ship of Thesus just sailed past to disprove that argument! 😜

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@lcamtuf Bonus trivia: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski" is an anagram of "Banach-Tarski"

[demallien@mindly.social]

@lcamtuf it would be funnier if the B stood for Benoit B, not Benoit

[stringlapse@tech.lgbt]

@lcamtuf benoit b mandelbenoit b mandelbrotrot

[forkidork@theforkiverse.com]

@lcamtuf

[ravenluni@furry.engineer]

@lcamtuf Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit ...........
-- stack overflow.

[ag7gm@mastodon.radio]

@lcamtuf LOL.

How meta. ;)

[vikxin@beach.city]

@lcamtuf this might actually be true

[ericlawton@kolektiva.social]

@lcamtuf

I bought a carton of Campbell's chicken broth.

The first ingredient listed was "chicken broth", then additives like sugar snd salt.

Presumably that chicken broth in the list is also recursive.

@alice

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@lcamtuf I think this is in one of the standard cookie files that come with fortune.

[nichni@mastodonapp.uk]

@lcamtuf Now I feel re-cursed.

[rubinjoni@mastodon.social]

@perhaps391 @lcamtuf Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot https://mastodon.social/@perhaps391/116070763482625428

[lori@cambrian.social]

@EricLawton @alice @lcamtuf I aspire to become a volunteer volunteer recruiter recruiter.

[trpeal@ohai.social]

@EricLawton @lcamtuf @alice
I bought a package of hardboiled eggs and the only ingredient listed was "eggs".

[thoughtcriminal@noauthority.social]

@lcamtuf also, the W. B. In W. B. Mason stands for Who But.

[mistermoo@mstdn.social]

@lcamtuf A post about Benoit Mandelbrot and not one reference to Mandelbrot Set by Jonathan Coulton? Getting sloppy millennials.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uluZMafXVE&t=82s&pp=2AFSkAIB

[jorsh@beige.party]

@lcamtuf

Underrated joke.

[minirop@shelter.moe]

@Jorsh @lcamtuf it might not be. Mandelbrot started adding the B. as a middle name but said it didn't meant anything. (so maybe he had that joke in mind)

source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/17/benoit-mandelbrot-obituary

[jwo@mastodonczech.cz]

@synlogic4242 @lcamtuf Mandelbrot was a ⊥?

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@stringlapse Hmm, almost. Since the pattern to be replaced, as per the original toot, is "B.", if we treat that dot as a regexp metacharacter, we get "benoit b. mandelbenoit b. mandelbrotot" @lcamtuf