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[[Image:Buddhabrot-deep.jpg|300px|Buddhabrot deeply iterated]]

The '''[[Buddhabrot]]''' is a special rendering of the [[Mandelbrot set]], which resembles, to some extent, certain depictions of the [[Buddha]]. Mathematically, the set consists of the [[set]] of points ''c'' in the [[complex number]] plane for which the [[iteration|iteratively]] defined [[sequence]] 

:<math>z_{n+1} = {z_n}^2 + c</math>

with ''z''<sub>0</sub> = 0 does ''not'' tend to infinity.''

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