Mandelbrot Set

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We have a long way to go, but...

When staring in the face of infinity, computation can only take you so far. You have reached the limit of what floating-point arithmetic can faithfully represent. The Mandelbrot set is infinitely detailed; every boundary you see contains an entire universe of further structure without end.

To go deeper, coordinates must be expressed with ever-increasing precision: numbers whose decimal expansions never terminate, never repeat, and cannot be stored in any finite register.

The set will never simplify. It will only reveal more of itself.

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