Kenneth Lifvenborg wrote:

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<snip> but folks should know that the "universality of the M-set," that is the recurrence of "mini-bugs" or cardioids, at every level of "magnification," is just an artifact of the floating-point ops (IEEE-755, -855, I think). <snip>

I find this a bit disturbing. Could anyone please care to comment?

(DISCLAIMER: Not An Expert) Doesn't FractInt use integer math? If you find buds at the upper integer levels, doesn't that suggest they continue on down? Has anyone ever dove deep into the Mbrot using infinite precision numbers? Probably slow, but--hey--it'd be like the old days of FractInt.... -- |_ CJSonnack <Chris@Sonnack.com> _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | |_____________________________________________|_______________________|