Talk:Border
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[edit] Lengths of borders
Many pages describe how long the coast or border of a particular state or nation is. In light of the work done by Mandelbrot in his paper How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension and the work done by Lewis Fry Richardson, I'm a little confused because it seems to me that stating a country's coast or border as being x kilometres means nothing unless it is specified how these things are measured and what scale of measurement is used. How is the standard the measurement done? For example, what does it mean when the CIA World Factbook states that certain country's coastline is a particular length?
