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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (43408)11/25/2011 10:15:33 AM
From: yard_man  Respond to of 71475
 
>> How is it entertaining? <<

intellectually, academically -- from the standpoint of the thing he was interested in the time, I found it to be very interesting: using self-similarity to store encoded images ... but who cares now with abundant storage. Heck, I think it is neato -- just to know many, many seemingly complicated phenomena can arise from iterating very simple non-linear rules.

I have this book, too, and it is a fun read -- a little bit at a time:

amazon.com

even the foreward was quite good.