GraniteM@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 小时前Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't existlemmy.worldimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down129
arrow-up149arrow-down1imageJeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't existlemmy.worldGraniteM@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 小时前message-square38fedilink
minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-25 小时前Literally no. Very hard to measure, but strictly still a finite length. Limits and all that jazz.
minus-squarekartoffelsaft@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·4 小时前Limits can resolve to infinity. The coastline paradox is just the observation that the (semi-reasonable) assumption that landmasses are fractal shaped implies the coastline tends towards infinity with smaller yardsticks.
minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 小时前They can… I wasn’t saying they couldn’t… I meant that as to point to the logic you’d use to prove it finite My bad for the poor wording though.
Literally no. Very hard to measure, but strictly still a finite length. Limits and all that jazz.
Limits can resolve to infinity. The coastline paradox is just the observation that the (semi-reasonable) assumption that landmasses are fractal shaped implies the coastline tends towards infinity with smaller yardsticks.
They can… I wasn’t saying they couldn’t… I meant that as to point to the logic you’d use to prove it finite
My bad for the poor wording though.