When you speak to people that understand fractals, they say everywhere and everything is fractals. I have tried to understand fractals but I am completely lost, can someone please explain it like I’m 5?

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Side note: I tend to find these people very eccentric, I sorta feel like they can see the matrix 🙂 I am absolutely fascinated by this but completely lost 🙂

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“People who understand fractals” that’s already a false premise. Fractals are just patterns that repeat when you zoom in/out something. You must have seen pictures of fractals, so you should already have a visual understanding of what it is.

Also other comments have given good explanations, so I will stress out just a fee points: you can find plenty of repeating patterns in nature but 1) they don’t go on forever and 2) the patterns don’t repeat perfectly, so it’s real fractals in a mathematical sense.

And you will understand fractals better with visuals, so Youtube is a better place to learn about fractals.