28 Feb
2007
28 Feb
'07
8:46 p.m.
In article <000701c75b77$3cfd0840$7899fea9@budstoy>, "Mark Christenson" <mchris@value.net> writes:
While zooming into the Mandelbrot set, as I was exceeding about 2.8 e+12 magnification, the computation slowed down significantly. Location is X-axis, about -1.9401573555612, log palette=1, maxiter=1000, passes=1. Perhaps an arbitrary precision issue...
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