That would work for the perimeter, but not for the area.
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Deestan@lemmy.world 4 months agoDue to the fractal nature of geometery, all they would have to do is use more fine-grained measurements. :)
Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Deestan@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
With the assumption that we now measure inclines of course
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”
Deestan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I see! Then I understand your response. :)
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Fractals are self-replicating while surface area or coastline of a country are inherently finite.
Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
[deleted]Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you’re measuring surface area it would.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Lets now measure all coastlines with the minimum increment possible, the planck length.