posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 12:48pm on 2008-04-08
...and hence, fractal!

(One the more concise ways to explain fractals: "infinite extent in finite bounds.")
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:27pm on 2008-04-08
Ooh, a prettier analogy than what I'd been thinking. (My first thought on reading that phrase was that {x∈ℜ|0<x<1} is also bounded-yet-infinite (though not of "infinite extent"). But the ... well, squiggliness and different-directions-ness and "ooh! makes pretty pictures" and being less convenient to sort into a linear order, all seem to make fractals much more suited to representing human diversity. So I like your conclusion better.)
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:30pm on 2008-04-08
Y'know, I think I oughta propogate that addition to the mirrors of this entry (I'll edit this copy just to keep 'em all in sync).
 
posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 01:31pm on 2008-04-08
(is once again honored)

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