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Koch Snowflake

January 23, 2017

A TV weather anchor reports a strange snowfall next to a Koch snowflake. The Koch curve itself has infinite length but zero area, since its dimension is between 1 and 2.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-01-23-koch-snowflake/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Newscaster: "Today's snowfall was infinite inches, but covered no area. Our fractal weather team has more."

Topics
Geometry › FractalsGeometry › Area & PerimeterGeometry › DimensionSets & Infinity › Infinity
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