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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Coastlines are indeed fractals, and a similar argument could be made for any border defined by natural phenomena (so like, not the long straight US/Canada border).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Coastlines are not self repeating and they are fundamentally finite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fractals are not necessarily self repeating, they just contain detail at arbitrarily small scales.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Which a physical space cannot fulfill

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