Re: [computer-go] Fractals, was Search = Bad!

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@xxxxxxx>]

In article <twig.1109279871.98263@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,  wrote:
> Mandelbrot defined many fractal relationships
> that have inner and outer cutoffs. For example,
> the coastline of Great Britain is a fractal which
> has an inner cut-off at a grain of sand (perhap 1 mm),
>
       Mandlebrot, for all his acknowledged abilities, obviously was 
not a geologist.
       (someone in this conversation has spent too much of the last 
week looking at the surface textures and "graininess" of clay-rich 
sediment samples)


-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10'11" N,  02°08'43"  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233


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