We are now prepared to see a very standard example for parallel computing that we will revisit later in this text—an algorithm to generate an image of the Mandelbrot set. Let's first define exactly what we mean.
For a given complex number, c, we define a recursive sequence for 
, with 
and
for 
. If |zn| remains bounded by 2 as ...
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