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Fun story! But look at the date at the bottom...

• tylershuster 9y ago
  Agreed: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwifs/mathnews/Nzms82/news82.htm#monk http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwifs/mathnews/Nzms82/news82.htm#mo...
• ben_w 9y ago
  I was chatting about this with a friend recently. I spent most the last 15 years thinking it was real.
  • pvg 9y ago
    Had you written your own Mandelbrot set renderer or not when you first came across the story?
    • ben_w 9y ago
      I can't remember. It was within a few years of me writing such a renderer on my graphics calculator, but I'm not sure which came first.
• CPAhem 9y ago
  It reminds me of "An ancient rope-and-pulley computer is unearthed in the jungle of Apraphul," Computer Recreations, Scientific American http://robert.surton.net/cs271/apraphulian.pdf http://robert.surton.net/cs271/apraphulian.pdf