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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times

UNCOVERED: What do broccoli lungs and coastlines have in common - Caught on Camera

In March 1980, Benoit Mandelbrot wrote a program on an IBM research computer to visualise a simple mathematical function.

The result was startling - it looked like a drop of ink on blotting paper, with colours bleeding off the edge.

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