How can a finite area like Great Britain have an infinite length edge?
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Coastlines are like a fractal curve, the length of a fractal curve is infinite.
Of course in the real world it’s not infinite, just like a drop of water doesn’t have a singularity in the moment in drops off from the surface of a faucet. But the length of a coastline is an absurdly large number when you count the distance between all atoms on a coastline.
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