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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

245. Fractally speaking....



An xkcd cartoon inspired by a fractal generated from triples of circles, where any circle is tangent to two others. The fractal is named after a Greek mathematician who did some fairly fundamental work on conic sections and gave the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola the names by which we know them by today.

What is the fractal known as?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Appolonius ?