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[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago
[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

And the best part in this is that it all aligns with the Mandelbrot set, for some reason

Edit: Nevermind, it's the bifurcation diagram of the Mandelbrot set that does this.

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

that's meaningless because every bifurcation map looks the same

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

funny how you can come to the same conclusions if you're - a) doing science b) doing Buddhism c) doing drugs

[–] bsolos@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It doesn't, the one that aligns is the bifurcation diagram of the function used to make the set (f(z)=z^2+c), which is different from the rabbit one (the logistic map, f(x)=rx(1-x)).

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

They easily map to each other via linear transformation.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Oh I never knew that!

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 78 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, "what" is right. Wtf is this?

[–] njaard@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's making reference to logistic curves and how rabbit populations, which can grow exponentially, will oscillate between a low and high population size.

In short, it explains why some years there are a shit ton of rabbits, and other years, very few.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But there is no oscillation visible here, just aliasing of the lines that make it appear as if there are suddenly none. Note the "none" instead of few. Also it would still not make sense since 1 can not split into 2? And why should the generational succession get faster and faster? 9 woman get 1 child every month kind of math or what?

[–] Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 days ago
[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 39 points 2 days ago
[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago
[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this indicating the triple point of a rabbit?

[–] turnipjs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

more like the triple point of two rabbits

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

It’s going well

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As so often with anything related to maths, pi pops out at the most unexpected places.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 11 points 2 days ago

If you look hard enough, everything has a circle in it somewhere

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago