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U know why the “fractals” are called so ?

The history of fractals in the strict sense is fairly recent. Suddenly opened in 1975 with the revolutionary publication “A Theory of Fractal Sets” of mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, which became the basis of its fundamental text and manifest.

In “The Fractal Geometry of Nature” Mandelbrot, has coined the term fractal which derives from the Latin word “Fractus” (split), because the size of a fractal is not whole. The fractal geometric figures are characterized by repeated indefinitely until the same reason on an ever smaller scale.

The characteristic of these figures, a feat …

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U know why ‘you take the electrical shock when you get off the car’?

All bodies (the car, the human body and so on.) Have a tendency to lose or to accumulate electric charges through friction or even for a trivial contact (for example, the car is traveling “rubbed” by the wind). When you touch the car, the electricity accumulated on the body passes through the body of the passenger (and the car is “discharged”), from there the electrical shock. This phenomenon is called triboelettricità – electricity through friction – and there is more in dry days. In fact in those days conductivity (the …