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.”