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it is impossible even in theory to obtain an exact value for the length of a coastline.

In three-dimensional space, the coastline paradox is readily extended to the concept of fractal surface structures, whereby the area of a surface varies depending on the measurement resolution.

Discovery

Shortly before 1951, Lewis Fry Richardson, in researching the possible effect of border lengths on the probability of war, noticed that

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