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1. Fractals are closely related to and often considered part of what field of Mathematics?
2. Fractal based equations have been found useful in all of these applications but one. Which?
3. What mathematician coined the word fractal and referred to himself on occasion as a "fractalist?"
4. Fractals have become much more popular since the advent of electronic computing because they depend upon what aspects of computing?
5. Which is these commonly used consumer devices makes applied use of fractals?
6. Which of the following is NOT a good example of how fractals appear in nature?
7. In 1904 one of the earliest & simplest fractals was described by Helge von Koch, the "Koch Snowflake."
This snowflake is based on what standard geometric shape?
8. A slightly more complex fractal starts with an upright equilateral triangle and divides it into four equilateral triangles by connecting the midpoints of the three sides forming an upside down interior equilateral triangle.
Recursively performing this process for every resultant triangle produces a drawing that begins to look like a gasket. What is this fractal figure called?
9. Benoit Mandelbrot started concentrating on fractals when he was asked to look into a problem that IBM was having. What did the problem concern?
10. Applying a set rules recursively to a particular problem occurs in several brain teaser games. Diagramming the shortest and longest solutions will sometimes result in figures that look uncannily like on of the fractals we've discussed. Which popular puzzles are an exemplar of that?
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