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  1. Can you discuss fractals without mentioning this F-word?
    The BBC can!
    (Unless they hid it extremely well in the text.
    I didn't look for acrostics or anagrams 🙂.)

    Either way, the numbers in this example from actual practice are impressive:
    «Search for a larger territory like the United States and this disparity [between reports of coastline length] grows even further, from 12,380 miles (19,924 km), according to the CIA World Factbook; to 84,000 miles (135,185 km), according to the US Army Corps of Engineers; to an astonishing 95,471 miles (153,646 km), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal agency responsible for mapping the US's coastline.»

    Why it's impossible to measure England's coastline
    <bbc.com/travel/article/2026041>

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