Eli5 why the coastline paradox is a paradox?

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Eli5 why the coastline paradox is a paradox?

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A paradox is when you can use different sound logical modes of discovery to come to conflicting conclusions. A coastline is finite, it can be measured, but then more accurately you measure, the longer it gets, so if you measure it to infinite precision, it becomes infinitely long.

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