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by 9NRtKyP4 3618 days ago
Mandelbrot on the "fractal dimension" of coastlines:

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/worksh...