Math trivia: the "B."

[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

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@vikxin The bit about the circumflex is easily explained. His family was Lithuanian, and he was born in Poland. They were not originally French. While Lithuanian and Polish orthography have numerous diacritics, the circumflex is not among them. It would be unlikely to be used in anyone's name, even if it was of foreign origin. This happens with French names used as English given names, too: Éric > Eric, François > Francis, Théodore > Theodore, Frédéric > Frederic, etc.

[kathmandu@stranger.social]

@lcamtuf

😜

[elenlefoll@fediscience.org]

@lcamtuf Would like to see the proof. Please showing your workings.

[blort@social.tchncs.de]

@lcamtuf
Lol. True or not, that's awesome.

[gcolpart@mastodon.evolix.org]

@lcamtuf like GNU = GNU is Not Unix (in computer science) 😉