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Everytime I see people talking about the length of their coastlines ... Look at how long this edge of my fractal is, Ma!

• Keegs 3mo ago
  I understand the infinite coastline concept in theory but in practice would you even want to measure a coastline that way? Even if your goal was “perfect” precision, coastlines are variable. You’d have to take an average across tides and that would require zooming out enough to get a normal sounding answer.