Fractal dimension | mathematics | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• In fractal
  …a mathematical parameter called its fractal dimension. Unlike Euclidean dimension, fractal dimension is generally expressed by a noninteger—that is to say, by a fraction rather than by a whole number. Fractal dimension can be illustrated by considering a specific example: the snowflake curve defined by Helge von Koch in 1904.…
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  In number game: Pathological curves
  …Mandelbrot has generalized the term dimension, symbolized D, to denote the power to which 3 must be raised to produce 4; that is, 3_D_ = 4. The dimension that characterizes von Koch’s snowflake is therefore log 4/log 3, or approximately 1.26.
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