Math trivia: the "B."

[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) 😉

[nettings@mastodon.social]

@RavenLuni @lcamtuf OMG. and you havent even gotten to the middle B yet! better buy some RAM!

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@lcamtuf OH. That is very clever

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@lcamtuf 😂😂🤌

[changbai@merveilles.town]

@synlogic4242 @lcamtuf 666? buddy you need to download more RAM

[hoco@sfba.social]

@lcamtuf gnu's not unix

[tth@pleroma.interhacker.space]

@hoco@sfba.social @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange : GNI's not #Irix, GNA's not #AIX, GNO's not #OpenBSD, and for GNE ?...

[floralia@jorts.horse]

@lcamtuf

[commanderfloofy@blimps.xyz]

@lcamtuf that got a good chuckle out of me

[joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social]

@lcamtuf akshully each of the three B's in his name stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot (but written in a slightly smaller font)