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"Arrr! The jagged beast o' a function that sent calculus sailin' to Davy Jones' locker!"

2025-02-23

Arrr, in the late 1800s, that scallywag Karl Weierstrass conjured a fractal beast so foul, it was called a “deplorable evil!” But lo! With time, it turned the very seas of mathematics upside down, makin’ waves like a ship in a storm! Savvy?

Ahoy, matey! Gather 'round, as I spin ye a yarn of the late 19th century! 'Twas a time when the seas of mathematics be churnin' with strange waters. A scallywag by the name of Karl Weierstrass, cleverer than a parrot with a thesaurus, conjured up a wicked creation known as a fractal-like function. Aye, it be a thing so perplexin’ and twisted that some landlubbers called it naught but a “deplorable evil!”

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