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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
<https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260410-why-its-impossible-to-measure-englands-coastline>