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Rain forest plays a vital role in regulating the earths climate by removing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. How much CO2 does this rain forest obsorb? Fractal geometry may help us answer this question. The fractal structure of a single tree can predict how an entire rain forest works. Step 1.cut down a tree Step 2. measure the lengths and width of the branches to quantify the trees factal stucture. Step 3.measure how much carbon a single leaf contains. By using fractal, we cam figure out how much carbon the entire tree is taking in. Step 4. sample the distributions of the size of trees by measuring the base of an amount of trees. The forest in fact has a fractal structure, the same as the one tree that has just been cut down. For generations, scientists believed that the wildness of nature could not be defined by mathematics. But fractal geometry is leading to a whole new understanding, revealing an underlying order governed by simple mathematical rules. Thank you ~ on the frontiers of medical research in a rain forest in wireless communications in the movies You can find it the jagged, repeating form called a F r a c t a l 分 形 Broccoli 西兰花 The surface of the moon veins leaf a French and American mathematician 1 2 Emeritus at Yale University 3 IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center 4 Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences Beno?t Mandelbrot Cantor set The German mathematician Georg Cantor created the first of the monsters in 1883