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Originally Posted by Tuna
I guess saying it "approaches infinity" may be a more appropriate term for it.
It's not even the defining the length of it matter. It's getting the precise measurements of it.
For example, a straight line's length CAN be defined.
A real jagged coastline, as is used in the coastline paradox, can't be because it's impossible to take in every little degree (and 1/8 of a degree, 1/16, etc.).
See where I'm going? Or do I just sound like an idiot?  |
No I think we're actually saying the same thing. I was saying that by that argument nothing with mass can actually be defined by size. I used the term length because we were still talking about a coastline.
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