GraniteM@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoJeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't existlemmy.worldimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down136
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minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-221 hours agoLiterally no. Very hard to measure, but strictly still a finite length. Limits and all that jazz.
minus-squarekartoffelsaft@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·20 hours agoLimits can resolve to infinity. The coastline paradox is just the observation that the (semi-reasonable) assumption that landmasses are fractal shaped implies the coastline tends towards infinity with smaller yardsticks.
minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-219 hours agoThey can… I wasn’t saying they couldn’t… I meant that as to point to the logic you’d use to prove it finite My bad for the poor wording though.
Literally no. Very hard to measure, but strictly still a finite length. Limits and all that jazz.
Limits can resolve to infinity. The coastline paradox is just the observation that the (semi-reasonable) assumption that landmasses are fractal shaped implies the coastline tends towards infinity with smaller yardsticks.
They can… I wasn’t saying they couldn’t… I meant that as to point to the logic you’d use to prove it finite
My bad for the poor wording though.