Re: Heron at Sea


"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>>> "CB" == Craven <cravenbirds@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
>> >> Though, thanks to the people working on fractals, we now
> know
>> >> that you can make a coastline more or less as long as you
> want
>> >> to, by varying the scale at which you do the
>> >> measurements. Measure Argyll (carefully!) on a 1:50,000 map
> and
>> >> France on a 1:1,000,000 map, and Argyll may well come out
>> >> longer.
>>
>>> What!!!! Lost with this scenerio :-(
>>
>> Think of a fractal as infinitely long, but tucked up into a finite
>> length - then, then length you actually measure depends upon the
>> magnification (the greater the magnification, the more bends you
> can
>> see, so the path appears longer).
>>
>> You're not measuring the distance the hooded crow flies, but the
>> distance the drunk rolls.
>
> As that great mathematician Chesterton put it, "the day we went to
> Birmingham by way of Beachy Head." May it be long ere we all go to
> Paradise by way of Kensal Green!

My thoughts on the subject;-)

The real trouble with this world of ours is that it is nearly reasonable,
but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians.
It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its
exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in
wait.

Craven


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