THE COASTLINE IS REALLY UNMEASURABLE

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            Let AB be the coastline.  If you measure the coastline with one km scale, we get the length as 2.3km.  If we measure the same coastline with 100-meter scale, we get the length as 2.9km.  From the figure, we can understand, why the length increases as we increase the magnification factor (scale).  If we use still smaller scale like 100 cm, the length of the coastline will further increase.  ...

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