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Chaos is present everywhere in countless ways and forms, while Order remains an unattainable ideal

M.C. Escher, 29 December 1947

if all the pop scientists are to believed, chaos is everywhere, fractals abound and at every flap of butterfly wings, chain reactions start and cause remote unseasonal weather patterns

some of it has to do with herr mandelbrott's set of complex numbers. i just love explaining this one and it gives me endless pleasure to have finally found a usefull application for the imaginary number i, the square root of -1 that does not exist but in the imagination of wily mathematicians that need such stuff to explain what is happening around us

the fun thing about i is that it all of a sudden produces the value -1 when squared, helpful indeed, out of the unknown pops a real number