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Sierpinski gasket
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Sierpinski gasket [sir′pin·skē ‚gas·kət]
(mathematics)
A fractal which can be constructed by a recursive procedure; at each step a triangle is divided into four new triangles, only three of which are kept for further iterations.
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Some are geometric and easy to spot, like a snowflake or the popular example known as the Sierpinski Triangle, a triangle made of so many smaller triangles that the closer you look the more triangles you find.
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