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    | n | An
    example is a coast line 
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    | n | A
    section of coast in a 20 miles view looks much 
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    a section in a 10 mile view. 
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    | n | Its
    length depends upon the scale at which we 
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    it. The small the scale we look at the 
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    little wiggles there are. It is not of dimension 
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    like a line, but neither does it completely fill an 
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    | n | It
    has fractional dimension between 1 and 2. 
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