Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days agoLiterally no
Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days agoLiterally no
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.
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
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
If you’re going to talk about paradoxes, you should also know you’re committing a presupposition fallacy