If the entire Mandelbrot set were placed on an ordinary sheet of paper, the tiny sections of boundary we examine would not fill the width of a hydrogen atom. Physicists think about such tiny objects; only mathematicians have microscopes fine enough to actually observe them.
John Ewing (1791 - 1802)
Source: "Can We See the Mandelbrot Set?", The College Mathematics Journal, March 1995.
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