Err, this sounds like an interesting but somewhat frivolous debate. Whilst it may be mathematically correct to look towards fractal theory in discussing the length of a coastline, I'm fairly certain they have an accepted length.
I have a picture of one on my wall. The paper it's on isn't of infinite size though. I also walked along one once. The fact that I'm now back writing this suggests that the walk didn't take an infinite length of time. It doesn't always advance the position of science in our world to rigorously adhere to the theoretical, whilst ignoring the perceptual. After all, quantum theory states also states that I simultaneously both did and didn't write this post... _______________________________________________ jts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jts-devel
