Do you think the holes left by digging the dirt would also count as increased area? Because it feels like it’d be a 2 for one deal
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njm1314@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s not, but I love the idea that it could be. You just know some of those megalomaniac dictators would be piling up fake Hills to make their country bigger. Turkmenistan would have giant Towers of dirt everywhere.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 years ago
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Absolutely!
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Oh man, holey cheese has one heck of a surface area doesn’t it.
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Depends on the thickness of the slice.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Eff that and their primitive math: I want to see the Vatican truck in gravel of precisely the size of the increment, to become THE LARGEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, MUAH HA HAH!
Deestan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Due to the fractal nature of geometery, all they would have to do is use more fine-grained measurements. :)
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Lets now measure all coastlines with the minimum increment possible, the planck length.
Faresh@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
That would work for the perimeter, but not for the area.
Deestan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It works exactly the same!
If I go over our parking lot with a 1m^2 granularity, I get 100m^2. If I go with 1cm^2 granularity, I get 110m^2 because I catch the sides of the curbs, potholes, etc.
demonstrations.wolfram.com/3DSnowflakeFractals/
Faresh@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I interpreted your reply to njm1314 as meaning “we don’t need to measure inclination to cheat, we can do that by simply increasing our precision”
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Fractals are self-replicating while surface area or coastline of a country are inherently finite.
Faresh@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If you’re measuring surface area it would.