
008 = Height Matters and Dish Splatters
A Problem Squared
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The Problem With Measuring a Country
The problem with measuring a country is very similar to the problem we had of calculating the surface area of the t-shirt. Because you can always have a tinier ruler, there's always a small ruler. So it's very bitty. It's difficult because of the shape. Even if you've got an infinitely long coastline or you've got this complex fractalness going on with length, you still have a definite area. You don't get the same runaway problem with area with this, with this crazy border,. But you do get the t- shirt problem, as we're now calling it, because you got all these weird shapes.
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