@vikxin The bit about the circumflex is easily explained. His family was Lithuanian, and he was born in Poland. They were not originally French. While Lithuanian and Polish orthography have numerous diacritics, the circumflex is not among them. It would be unlikely to be used in anyone's name, even if it was of foreign origin. This happens with French names used as English given names, too: Éric > Eric, François > Francis, Théodore > Theodore, Frédéric > Frederic, etc.
@cstross This is a common misconception. The “B.” here is really the set of all expansions for which Benoit B. Mandelbrot converges (e.g., when “B.” stands for “Gaston M. Julia”).
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The first ingredient listed was "chicken broth", then additives like sugar snd salt.
Presumably that chicken broth in the list is also recursive.
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What's the worst?.. handle MandelBrat-wurst?..
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How meta. ;)
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