sierpinski carpet code::This is of course the sierpinski carpet sierpinski carpet code

sierpinski carpet code

sierpinski carpet code

sierpinski carpet code::This is of course the sierpinski carpet.
For example, you can check whether or not a point in the plane is on the sierpinksi plane by looking at the ternary expansion of its coordinates, which is a couple of lines of computer code.
From the point of view of the computer, the sierpinksi carpet is not much more complicated than a parabola.
I suspect that the popularity of fractals marks a change in the popular imagination of the dominant metaphor for mathematics, from mathematics as mechanics to mathematics as computer program.
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