GraniteM@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoJeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't existlemmy.worldimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1116
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minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-22 days agoLiterally no. Very hard to measure, but strictly still a finite length. Limits and all that jazz.
minus-squarekartoffelsaft@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoLimits 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-squareSpice Hoarder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoIf you’re going to talk about paradoxes, you should also know you’re committing a presupposition fallacy
minus-squareFredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 day agoThey 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.
If you’re going to talk about paradoxes, you should also know you’re committing a presupposition fallacy
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.