Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

• kartoffelsaft@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Limits can resolve to infinity. The coastline paradox is just the observation that the (semi-reasonable) assumption that landmasses are fractal shaped implies the coastline tends towards infinity with smaller yardsticks.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They can… I wasn’t saying they couldn’t… I meant that as to point to the logic you’d use to prove it finite

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re going to talk about paradoxes, you should also know you’re committing a presupposition fallacy

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