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		college_physics on Jan 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chaos Hypertextbook Are Julia sets the inspiration for the name of julia the language?

smeagull on Jan 5, 2023 | [–]

Nope. The language was named arbitrarily, the sets are named after a French Mathematician.

cdsousa on Jan 7, 2023 | [–]

We are free to come up with myths about the name origin. My favorite one is that it comes from Julia character of George Orwell's 1984 novel :D

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