Comment on Is land inclination included in area calculation?

• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lets now measure all coastlines with the minimum increment possible, the planck length.

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• Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That would work for the perimeter, but not for the area.

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  • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

    demonstrations.wolfram.com/3DSnowflakeFractals/

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    • Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨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”

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      • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I see! Then I understand your response. :)

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fractals are self-replicating while surface area or coastline of a country are inherently finite.

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• Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re measuring surface area it would.

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