| Pathological monsters! |
| cried the terrified mathematician
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| Every one of them a splinter in my eye
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| I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
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| I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
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| The Sierpinski Gasket makes me wanna cry
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| And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
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| On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
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| His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
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| Left him well equipped to face those demons down
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| He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
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| Used his giant brain and he turned the game around
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| And he looked below the storm
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| Saw a vision in his head
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| A bulbous pointy form
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| Picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
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| Just take a point called Z in the complex plane
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| Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
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| And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
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| And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
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| If the series of Zs will always stay
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| Close to Z and never trend away
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| That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
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| Mandelbrot Set, you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
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| You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
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| You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
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| You’re one badass fucking fractal
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| And you’re just in time to save the day
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| Sweeping all our fears away
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| You can change the world in a tiny way
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| Mandelbrot’s in heaven, at least he will be when he’s dead
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| Right now he’s still alive and teaching math at Yale
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| He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
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| His geometry succeeds where others fail
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| If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
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| From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home
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| Just take a point called Z in the complex plane
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| Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
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| And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
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| And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
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| If the series of Zs will always stay
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| Close to Z and never trend away
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| That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
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| Mandelbrot Set, you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
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| You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
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| You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
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| You’re one badass fucking fractal
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| And you’re just in time to save the day
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| Sweeping all our fears away
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| You can change the world in a tiny way
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| Go on, change the world in a tiny way
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| Come on, change the world in a tiny way |