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To: maceng2 who wrote (55115)10/29/2004 11:26:01 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
Hi Pearly:

The way I know the gentleman, he probably said something like " ... and if you watch other processes like for example the stock market movement, you will notice that it's a self-similar process with a dimension of x over y (*), which is known to have unexpected large swings and ..."

and then you have somebody saying "HoooHoo, that's a great story, ´Mandelbrot anouncing Wall Street Armaggedon'" etc

May be I will get corrected by the ultimate quote magicienne;) - let's see...

dj

(*) like x=1 and y = 2 for Brownian motion