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I think you're correct.

That's one of the issues with results from theoretical math- the result is true, but it might not be useful.

As another commenter in the thread talks about, we can get a nearly identical result by using polynomials of extremely large degree, but that doesn't work well, because of overfitting. We could come up with a polynomial that also calculates with arbitrarily high accuracy if a point is in the Mandelbrot set or not, but it might end up being of 10100 degree, which is useless.



My gut sense is that 10100 degreed wouldn't even be enough to render a pixel accurate mandlebrot set on your phone's screen. So many twisty edges.




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