Temperature
The ``temperature'' of a curve 
is defined as
where
is the length of and 
is the length of the Perimeter of the Convex Hull. Thetemperature of a curve is 0 only if the curve is a straight line, and increases as the curve becomes more ``wiggly.''See also Curlicue Fractal
References
Pickover, C. A. Keys to Infinity. New York: Wiley, pp. 164-165, 1995.
- Bracket Product
- Bradley's Theorem
- Brahmagupta Identity
- Brahmagupta Matrix
- Brahmagupta Polynomial
- Brahmagupta's Formula
- Brahmagupta's Problem
- Braid
- Braid Group
- Braid Index
- Braid Word
- Braikenridge-Maclaurin Construction
- Branch
- Branch Cut
- Branch Line
- Branch Point
- Brauer Chain
- Brauer Group
- Brauer Number
- Brauer-Severi Variety
- Brauer's Theorem
- Braun's Conjecture
- Breeder
- Brelaz's Heuristic Algorithm
- Brent-Salamin Formula