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		sfilmeyer on Oct 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rwanda just released the first smartphone made ent... Or he just looped around the coastline once at a tighter resolution than your source of 30,500 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox (Also thanks for the AMA link)

samatman on Oct 10, 2019 [–]

The coastline paradox is cute, but any route using coastal roads will be shorter than any reasonable coastline estimate, for obvious reasons.

penagwin on Oct 10, 2019 | [–]

Plus the "resolution" of the coast is limited by the size of humans.

The coastline paradox is much more of a measurement problem then a physical one.

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