#### Vol. 10, No. 4, 2017

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New approximations for the area of the Mandelbrot set

### Daniel Bittner, Long Cheong, Dante Gates and Hieu D. Nguyen

Vol. 10 (2017), No. 4, 555–572
##### Abstract

Due to its fractal nature, much about the area of the Mandelbrot set $M$ remains to be understood. While a series formula has been derived by Ewing and Schober (1992) to calculate the area of $M$ by considering its complement inside the Riemann sphere, to date the exact value of this area remains unknown. This paper presents new improved upper bounds for the area based on a parallel computing algorithm and for the 2-adic valuation of the series coefficients in terms of the sum-of-digits function.

##### Keywords
Mandelbrot set, sum of digits
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