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| Sep 14, 2020 at 17:10 | history | edited | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Does it fail to be conspicuous to some people that putting the punctuation outside the math tags causes font mismatches and bad formatting. (That is among the differences between MathJax, where the problem occurs, and genuine LaTeX, where it doesn't.)
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| Sep 13, 2020 at 20:11 | comment | added | mme | Fair point! ${}$ | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 19:08 | comment | added | D.S. Lipham | @MikeMiller Yes the definition I gave is a pretty vague mathematical abstraction. However I think there are certain geometric regularities that we observe in actual spider's webs that may be be captured by simple iterative processes (iteration of entire functions is just an example). This could be considered when designing mathematical models. | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 18:47 | comment | added | mme | This seems to go the other direction from what the OP is asking. This is not a mathematical model for real-world spiderwebs; rather it's a mathematical object which we mentally model by thinking about spiderwebs. I do not think Julia sets of transcendental entire functions shed much light about the spiderwebs I see in the garden. Nice picture though. | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 18:14 | history | edited | D.S. Lipham | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 145 characters in body
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| Sep 13, 2020 at 18:08 | history | answered | D.S. Lipham | CC BY-SA 4.0 |