Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Carpet Prices

April 20, 2018

A plain carpet priced per square meter beside a Sierpiński carpet priced per meter raised to its fractal dimension, log 8 / log 3.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-04-20-carpet-prices/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

"REGULAR CARPET — $40 per m²" | "SIERPINSKI CARPET — $40 per m^(log(8)/log(3))"

Topics
Geometry › FractalsGeometry › DimensionFunctions › LogarithmsGeometry › Area & Perimeter
Level
High SchoolCollege
Themes
Money & ShoppingVisual Explanations