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Comment by monktastic1

8 years ago

I'm reminded of the coastline paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

"The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the fractal-like properties of coastlines."

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