albert comments on A fun estimation test, is it useful? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: albert 07 December 2011 01:25:45AM 0 points [-]

How do you measure a coastline? Isn't it a subjective measurement depending on the scale of precision/resolution (since the actual geometry is fractal)

I skipped that question since I couldn't figure out the standard

See this for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox