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France's longest border is with Brazil (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Coastlines are indeed fractals, and a similar argument could be made for any border defined by natural phenomena (so like, not the long straight US/Canada border).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Coastlines are not self repeating and they are fundamentally finite.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I believe they were referring to this, where technically a coast could be seen as similar to fractals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Literally from that page

The coastline paradox is often criticized because coastlines are inherently finite, real features in space, and, therefore, there is a quantifiable answer to their length.[17][19] The comparison to fractals, while useful as a metaphor to explain the problem, is criticized as not fully accurate, as coastlines are not self-repeating and are fundamentally finite.[17]

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