Comment on What are the most mindblowing fact in mathematics?

FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The one I bumped into recently: the 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 curve–like properties of coastlines; i.e., the fact that a coastline typically has a fractal dimension.”

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