Empirical fractal

John D. Cook · 8 hours ago · discuss

There’s a common saying in discussion of fractals that the length of a coastline depends on how small a device you use to measure it. I thought this was a hypothetical, say as applied to the steps in the construction of the Koch snowflake. But the saying has its roots in actually surveying. Lewis Fry […] The post Empirical fractal first appeared on John D. Cook.