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fractint-digest        Friday, January 26 2001        Volume 01 : Number 534




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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:18:04 +0100
From: "Ruis, J.J.C.M." <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (fractint) 4D life?

Dear members and users of Fractint,

Go to my program BBM8.exe and look at the examples that are given.

You will see that fractals look like 'alive'.

Jules Ruis.

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From: Morgan L. Owens [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: 23 januari 2001 09.34 uur
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?


At 12:16 23/01/2001 +1300, I wrote:

>Morgan L. Owens
>"I think they'd be fungi, myself."

No, no, no! Not mineral, not vegetable, not animal, not fungi, protists or
archaebacteria: but fractals _are_ alive! At least, to the extent that
viruses can be said to be alive.

Consider how many times the Mandelbrot set has been reproduced. How much
effort has been devoted to ever more detailed and accurate reproduction.
 From the index case in March 1980, the pandemic has spread throughout the
world, infecting tens of thousands certainly, and probably more, and that's
just counting people whose resources have been put to the use of
reproducing it again and hopefully spreading it further.

It wafts in to your mind, perhaps using a trippy colour scheme to prepare a
welcoming neurochemical balance, allay your suspicions and weaken your
defences. Once installed, it sends its tendrils out, and you start thinking
about it. You get curious. You find out a bit more about it. Your behaviour
becomes biased towards modes which would facilitate its further spread, in
the same way that a cold virus encourages you to sneeze more.

Before too long you end up downloading Fractint and from then on I'm afraid
the condition's probably incurable.

Morgan L. Owens
"The CDC have put out an advisory on Tim Wegner."



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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:38:49 -0600
From: Programmer Dude <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

"Morgan L. Owens" wrote:

> [F]ractals _are_ alive! At least, to the extent that viruses can be said
> to be alive.
>
> Consider how many times the Mandelbrot set has been reproduced. [...]
>
> It wafts in to your mind, perhaps using a trippy colour scheme to
> prepare a welcoming neurochemical balance, allay your suspicions and
> weaken your defences. Once installed, it sends its tendrils out, and
> you start thinking about it. [...]

Heh, Good One!

At this point, I can heartily recommend Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH
which deals with a binary "virus" for the human mind.  A worthwhile
read chock full of interesting ideas and concepts.  I especially liked
the "doggies".....

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:40:24 -0600
From: Programmer Dude <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) C-FOTD  23-01-01  (Mandelbrot Sylphs [7])

Jim Muth wrote:

> ..., and sub-atomic particles appear to be composed of mathematical
> functions,...

Or maybe itsy bitsy, teeny tiny little strings....

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:22:30 -0500
From: "Multiple Bogeys" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

>At this point, I can heartily recommend Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH
>which deals with a binary "virus" for the human mind.  A worthwhile
>read chock full of interesting ideas and concepts.  I especially liked
>the "doggies".....

I might be interested, if it weren't for the 's'-word.

Maybe in six months...
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:24:20 -0500
From: "Multiple Bogeys" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) C-FOTD 23-01-01 (Mandelbrot Sylphs [7])

>Or maybe itsy bitsy, teeny tiny little strings....

I'm fairly up-to-date on the tiny stuff. Strings, membranes, and such, all
of these and space itself made of something very fundamental called an
instanton, and those and their interactions governed by math. One thing
that's clear is that everything is made of math. Quantum numbers,
annihilation operators, topological stuff...
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:34:36 -0600
From: Programmer Dude <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

Multiple Bogeys wrote:

>> At this point, I can heartily recommend Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH
>
> I might be interested, if it weren't for the 's'-word.
>
> Maybe in six months...

Think snow like static on a tv screen... another 's'-word entirely.

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:52:52 -0600
From: Programmer Dude <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) C-FOTD 23-01-01 (Mandelbrot Sylphs [7])

Multiple Bogeys wrote:

> Strings, membranes, and such, all of these and space itself made of
> something very fundamental called an instanton, and those and their
> interactions governed by math.

I'd never heard of an instanton before, so I went looking for it.  It
seems to be a type of math solution:

  "...there exists in the Euclidean space a special class of classical
   solutions, called instantons or pseudoparticles. Because processes in
   Euclidean time correspond to processes in imaginary time in Minkowski
   space, these instantons describe actually tunneling processes between
   topological destinct vacua."
   [http://t5web.lanl.gov/blotz/cnls.html]

I'd be interested in learning more...

> One thing that's clear is that everything is made of math. Quantum
> numbers, annihilation operators, topological stuff...

I don't think that's clear at all.  Math certainly *describes* reality,
but that reality is *made* of math is just an idea (albeit a cool one!).

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:08:34 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (fractint) C-FOTD  23-01-01  (Mandelbrot Sylphs [7])

> ..., and sub-atomic particles appear to be composed of mathematical
> functions,...

>Or maybe itsy bitsy, teeny tiny little strings....

And the little strings are composed of....

Jim M.

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:23:01 -0600
From: Programmer Dude <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) C-FOTD  23-01-01  (Mandelbrot Sylphs [7])

[e-mail] wrote:

>>> ..., and sub-atomic particles appear to be composed of mathematical
>>> functions,...
>>
>> Or maybe itsy bitsy, teeny tiny little strings....
>
> And the little strings are composed of....

God only knows.  Literally.   ;-)


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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:41:40 +0100
From: "=?iso-8859-2?B?UHVza+FzIElzdHbhbiBqci4=?=" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

>A "tetrahedral grid" is impossible in the sense that regular tetrahedra
cannot
>be used to tile 3-dimensional space in the way that cubes can (or squares
and
>equilateral triangles in 2-space). Try it; after fitting five tetrahedra
>around an edge to make someting looking not unlike a certain automotive
logo),
>there's a gap left over too small to fix a sixth into.


You're right, that was a piece of $#&@ from me. I know the _atoms_ in that
grid form tetrahedrons - each carbon atom connects to 4 others - but the
grid IS cubic.

After thinking once about the whole thing: fractals - or self-similarity -
are also present in plants: like the ferns, - animals: bird feathers, but
it's a mineral's structure that is clearly dominated by math. Also, some
crystals - snowflakes - have something like self-similarity.
Mineral formations often consist of a scatter of crystals with different
sizes or many connected crystals. I have Mandelbrot-like formulas with these
behaviours.

>
>If fractals were alive, would they be animal, vegetable, or mineral? Well,
how
>many living minerals do you know?
>


Is the question then correct? :>


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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:34:06 +1300
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

Programmer Dude <[e-mail]> said:

>
> At this point, I can heartily recommend Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH
> which deals with a binary "virus" for the human mind.  A worthwhile
> read chock full of interesting ideas and concepts.  I especially liked
> the "doggies".....
>
Reading it for the nth time during my lunch break right now :-)

Morgan L. Owens
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:39:27 -0800 (PST)
From: caren <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

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 once you've finished with the not-bad cyberpunk, find yourself a copy of melissa scott's "trouble and her friends"...  as good as snowcrash is, it pales in comparison...

  [e-mail] wrote:
Programmer Dude said:

>
> At this point, I can heartily recommend Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH
> which deals with a binary "virus" for the human mind. A worthwhile
> read chock full of interesting ideas and concepts. I especially liked
> the "doggies".....
>
Reading it for the nth time during my lunch break right now :-)

Morgan L. Owens
"Fido's in too much of a hurry."



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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:39:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) C-FOTD  24-01-01  (MandNewt Playtime [7])

Classic FOTD -- January 24, 2001 (Rating 7)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

A 16mb file that would not run gave me a master headache today,
and kept me busy so late that I am forced to cut short today's
fractal discussion.  But the fractal itself was found before the
trouble turned up, and now appears in its full enigmatic glory.

Today's fractal, which was created by a variation of the
mysterious Ikenaga function, has been named "MandNewt Playtime".
I won't even attempt to describe the image, which is quite
indescribable, other than to say that it vaguely resembles a
scene on another planet.  The picture once again rates a 7, the
third or fourth consecutive FOTD with rating of 7!

The parameter file renders in 10+ minutes.  The file of the GIF
image will be posted in 16 hours to:

          alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

and in an hour or so to:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

and also to:

          <http://home.swbell.net/sdboyd56/fotd/>

The fractal weather today was sunny and 38F (3C).  This was a
huge improvement over the past several days, and brought out the
vestigial kittens in the fractal cats.

As I near the end of my energy, the day is also nearing its end.
But tomorrow arrives in 2-1/4 hours, and every tomorrow brings a
new fractal.  So until then, take care, and relax with a fractal.


Jim Muth
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:06:25 -0600
From: "Scott D. Boyd" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

On Tuesday 23 January 2001 02:33, Morgan L. Owens wrote:
>
> "The CDC have put out an advisory on Tim Wegner."

Why didn't you warn me before I had dinner with Tim and his wife this past
May? So that's why my back is going out, and my right knee is getting
visits from Arthur Itis....

(Nah... it's just old age...)  8-)

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:55:10 -1000
From: "David Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) 4D life?

On 23 Jan 01 at 9:38, Programmer Dude wrote:

> At this point, I can heartily recommend Neal
> Stephenson's SNOW CRASH which deals with a binary
> "virus" for the human mind.  A worthwhile read chock
> full of interesting ideas and concepts.  I especially
> liked the "doggies".....

Look up the topic of "memes" or "memetics." A meme is "an
infectious information pattern that uses the human mind
to reproduce itself." I used to have a link about them
somewhere. A prime example of a meme is the famous "Good
Times Virus" hoax ...

Read a different scifi book in which memes (which had
begun as information warfare superviruses built to search
for and subvert computer systems) had learned to
recognize the human mind as an information system, and
developed ways of infecting it and taking it over. The
human race had become a battleground for competing memes,
as the memes became more and more intelligent. If I
could remember the title (I don't think it was "Snow
Crash" - nope, just read the blurb about it at
Amazon.com, and it's not the same book) ...

Anyway, Amazon.com lists a couple of books about
memetics: "Virus of the Mind : The New Science of the
Meme," and "Darwinizing Culture : The Status of Memetics
As a Science" if anyone's interested in pursuing
memetics.

David
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:12:35 -1000
From: "David Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) A fractal I like

Just put up a new fractal on my small fractal gallery
that I particularly like. It's the big one if anyone's
interested in looking. Also, I'm open to suggestions re
improving the color palette ...

http://home.hawaii.rr.com/aliasjj/fractals.html

David
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:24:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) C-FOTD  25-01-01  (Purplebrot [5])

Classic FOTD -- January 15, 2001 (Rating 5)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

It's been another busy day here at Fractal Central, another day
on which I lacked the time to do a proper fractal search and
write a proper discussion.  But I did manage to scrounge up a
passable fractal.

I named the image "Purplebrot" after the gloriously purple
petals surrounding the central midget.  The purple is made all
the more vivid by the drab greens and tans along the outer
fringes.

Despite the haste in which it was found, the image rates an
average 5.  The parameter file renders in just under 16 minutes,
which is a bit slow, but not as slow as waiting 11-1/2 hours for
the GIF image file to be posted to Usenet at:

          alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

I expect that in a few weeks I'll have the computer situation
worked out, and once again be able to post the image at the same
time that I post the FOTD discussion to the mailing lists.

In an hour or so, the image will be available on the Web at:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

and at:

          <http://home.swbell.net/sdboyd56/fotd/>

The fractal weather here at Fractal Central today was sunny and
mild.  The temperature of 46F (8C) kept the cats comfortable on
the porch.

And that's it for this rushed day.  It's well past the time to
shut down the fractal shoppe and call it a night.  Until
tomorrow, take care, and see you in Fractal Land.


Jim Muth
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frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; Jim Muth
a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2),
g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(-a*b*g*h)^j,
k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel):
z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l
}

END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================


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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:53:58 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fw: Higher resolution

<<I downloaded ves2acfg & ran it but it appears to
report no VESA capability: the screen just comes up blank; no info there.>>


This is looong overdue...missed seeing your response, sorry.  The vesa2cfg
utility should have written the video modes of which your monitor is capable
to a file.  Find the file and you have a listing that you can compare to the
modes available in fractint.  I hope you've found  some way to increase your
resolution and apologize again for having missed your message:\
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:45:04 -0800
From: Kennan C Herrick <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fw: Higher resolution

Hi "RENRAD1" (who dat?)-

No problem at all!  In fact, the .txt file that goes along with vesa2cfg
told me just that, and I missed it.  But it gives a rather cryptic
geek-like return:

- ---------------------------------------
# QPV/386 / CDPEG configuration file
# created by VESA2CFG on Sat 13-Jan-2001, 14:56:36

VESA BGR      # perhaps RGB instead of BGR
#'VESA local
#"VESA configuration for "S3 Incorporated. Trio64V+"

  320  200   16     40 $0d 0
  640  480   16     80 $12 0
  800  600   16    100 $4f02 $0102
 1024  768   16    128 $4f02 $0104
 1280 1024   16    160 $4f02 $0106
  320  200  256    320 $13 0
  640  480  256    640 $4f02 $0101
  800  600  256    800 $4f02 $0103
 1024  768  256   1024 $4f02 $0105
  320  200  32k    640 $4f02 $010d
  640  480  32k   1280 $4f02 $0110
  800  600  32k   1600 $4f02 $0113
  320  200  64k    640 $4f02 $010e
  640  480  64k   1280 $4f02 $0111
  800  600  64k   1600 $4f02 $0114
  320  200  16m   1280 $4f02 $010f R
- --------------------------------------------

Do you suppose I am to conclude that all those configurations listed are
"VESA"-types?  And I wonder what the columns including "100 $4f02 $0102"
etc. mean; got any idea?

Ken Herrick

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:53:58 EST [e-mail] writes:
> <<I downloaded ves2acfg & ran it but it appears to
> report no VESA capability: the screen just comes up blank; no info
> there.>>
>
>
> This is looong overdue...missed seeing your response, sorry.  The
> vesa2cfg
> utility should have written the video modes of which your monitor is
> capable
> to a file.  Find the file and you have a listing that you can
> compare to the
> modes available in fractint.  I hope you've found  some way to
> increase your
> resolution and apologize again for having missed your message:\
> ~renrad1....the tardy
>
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:30:31 +0100
From: "=?iso-8859-2?B?UHVza+FzIElzdHbhbiBqci4=?=" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fw: Higher resolution

>  320  200   16     40 $0d 0
>  640  480   16     80 $12 0
>  800  600   16    100 $4f02 $0102
> 1024  768   16    128 $4f02 $0104
> 1280 1024   16    160 $4f02 $0106
>  320  200  256    320 $13 0
>  640  480  256    640 $4f02 $0101
>  800  600  256    800 $4f02 $0103
> 1024  768  256   1024 $4f02 $0105
>  320  200  32k    640 $4f02 $010d
>  640  480  32k   1280 $4f02 $0110
>  800  600  32k   1600 $4f02 $0113
>  320  200  64k    640 $4f02 $010e
>  640  480  64k   1280 $4f02 $0111
>  800  600  64k   1600 $4f02 $0114
>  320  200  16m   1280 $4f02 $010f R
>--------------------------------------------
>
>Do you suppose I am to conclude that all those configurations listed are
>"VESA"-types?  And I wonder what the columns including "100 $4f02 $0102"
>etc. mean; got any idea?


The number $4f02 means 4f02h, this is the value of the AX register to
initialize the mode (via int 10h). The other number - $0102 (102h) in this
case - is the value of BX. This call - AX=4f02, BX=mode number, usually
around 100h or 200h, int #10h - is the standard VESA video mode setting
procedure. Check out the Fractint help to see how to put these values to the
FRACTINT.CFG file or mail me for more help on this.


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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:46:17 -0500
From: "Multiple Bogeys" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD?

What, no FOTD last night?
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:58:23 -0000
From: "Pete Roberts" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD?

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:25:12 -0600
From: "Scott D. Boyd" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) FOTD?

On Friday 26 January 2001 16:46, Multiple Bogeys wrote:
> What, no FOTD last night?

Apparently, some people received the FOTD. I had to go to the FOTD section
of Paul Lee's Web site to find the FOTD. But I didn't receive the email
either. Perhaps there was some glitch, in which not everyone received it.
Is the lists.xmission.com server in California? Might have lost power
mid-way thru the mail list...  8-)

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:43:25 -0600
From: "Jonathan Osuch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fw: Higher resolution

> In fact, the .txt file that goes along with vesa2cfg
> told me just that, and I missed it.  But it gives a rather cryptic
> geek-like return:

Included with the Fractint version 20.0 release is a program called
makefcfg, which will provide you with the correct settings in a fractint.cfg
file.  Since it will overwrite an existing fractint.cfg file, you may want
to experiment with this in a different directory.

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:06:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (fractint) C-FOTD  27-01-01  (Good Luck Minibrot [9])

Classic FOTD -- January 27, 2001 (Rating 9)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's C-FOTD image rates a rare 9 on my 0-to-10 scale of
fractal worth.  It is so good in fact that I won't distract
attention from the image with a lot of off-topic blather.  I
rated the picture a 9 because I like the texture, I like the
colors, and I like the pattern.  The formula that drew the image
is 0.01Z^(-0.85)+Z^(1.05)+C, an obviously whimsical choice that
I never expected would do anything worthwhile.

But fractals are deceiving, and today's formula has more in it
than a quick glance would lead one to believe.  I named the
picture "Good Luck".  I certainly had some good luck when I
entered those parameters and chose a very unlikely area to
investigate.  Actually, the image is totally a matter of luck.
Very little planning or skill on my part went into its creation.

With a run-time of a little less than 19 minutes, the parameter
file is slow, but it will be worth the effort for those
impatient to see a FOTD that rates a 9.

Those with a bit more patience should wait an hour or so and
download the GIF image from:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

or from:

          <http://home.swbell.net/sdboyd56/fotd/>

Those with the patience of Job will find the image posted in 17
hours to the Usenet newsgroup:

          alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

The fractal weather today was partly sunny, with a chilly
temperature of 40F (4.5C).  Though it was chilly, the light wind
made things bearable for the delicate fractal cats, who spent
over one hour prowling and playing in the yard.

And now the time had once again come to shut down the fractal
shoppe and call it a night.  I'll return in 24 hours without
fail.  Until then, take care, and one doesn't see a 9-rated FOTD
every day.


Jim Muth
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START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================

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frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; Jim Muth
a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2),
g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(-a*b*g*h)^j,
k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel):
z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l
}

END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================

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