Re: Deep Zoom on Mandelbrot set

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_H=F6l=DF?= <manu@xxxxxxxxx> spake the secret code
<dlgber$arg$1@xxxxxxxxx> thusly:

>But I'd guess that's far from being the most extreme one. I just
>calculated the picture of a satteilte with a diameter of about
>10^{-57} just for fun ;-). I'm curious if there have been ambitions to
>go as deep as possible and how far people came.

I've got a semi-dormant FPGA hardware project to build a large
mantissa M-set computation engine (i.e. mantissas of 1,024 bits or
larger) for deep zoom computations, but it hasn't gone much farther
than the design stage.

A 1024 bit mantissa is 32 DWORDs (32*32 bits) of mantissa, which is a
pretty long mantissa even for a fast PC with a decent bignum
implementation.
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