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  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
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    fwor wrote: »
    I'd forgotten about fractals. Can't you use the theory behind them to prove that the coastline of any country is infinitely long? Perhaps I'm remembering that bit wrong....

    That's what a fractal is, a shape (with repeatable patterns) that's of infinite length. As with a country's coastline, you're right, because it's length depends on what resolution you're going to when measuring it.
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  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,910 Forumite
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    Ah yes - the Mandelbrot set (among others).

    [Useless fact no. 93]: There's a fractal generator app (XaoS) in the standard Ubuntu repository.
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