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		adammarples on May 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I found the best anagram in English (2017) Guess what the B in "Benoit B. Mandelbrot" stands for?

pdpi on May 9, 2023 [–]

Given that he added that middle "initial" himself and he didn't actually have a middle name, I like thinking that he added it precisely to make that joke work. Probably not true, but I still like it.

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