On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Carol A Braddock wrote:
So say you -could- estimate a fractal dimension for the internet. What would
the number be good for?
If it could be shown that a consistent estimate exists and it was
calculated, it would probably affect the scaling properties of the Net -
after all,
At 3:57 PM -0800 12/8/00, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Jim Choate wrote:
Fractal simply means non-integer dimension.
Yeah, that's where it started. But I'm using it more in the
sense of meaning the properties that fractal structures have;
self-similarity across scales, for one,
At 5:49 PM -0800 on 12/8/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 02:47 PM 12/8/00 -0600, Jim Choate emetted:
'fractal geodesic network' is spin doctor bullshit.
Well, buzzword bingo output anyway.
:-). "Neological" is so much more... euphemisitic...
And the Internet is most certainly NOT(!) geodesic
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
more like a geodesic dome filled with boiled spaghetti...
If you think about it this is actually one way to view the Internet.
Consider the highest l
