the coastline paradox.
In: Earth Science
A coastline isn’t a simple shape. It’s very very complex. If you measure a coastline with, say, miles, then you’ll end up rounding off these complexities which means you’re getting a length that is actually *less* than the true length. As you measure with smaller and smaller units, you round off less and less complexities, and the length gets larger and larger. That’s my understanding at least
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