Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
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The Four Dimensions of Fractal Geometry
The number four comes about, because these networks have to service cells that live in a three-dimensional space. So they have this kind of three-dimensionality automatically to them and the fractal thing adds a one to them. And so the four is actually three plus one. But let's put it this way, the paper we published said the data were consistent with the third, rather than the quarter. I can see that this conversation is capable of becoming fractal in itself. Yes, they could indeed.
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