Mandelbrot on the "fractal dimension" of coastlines: http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/howLongIsTheCoastOfBritain.pdf http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/

Mandelbrot on the "fractal dimension" of coastlines: http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/howLongIsTheCoastOfBritain.pdf http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/howLongIsTheCoastO... The figure under "The Richardson Effect" on this page has some examples of how measured length of coastlines scales with the the scale of measurement: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/cogsci/chaos/workshop/Fractals.html http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/cogsci/chaos/worksh...