Honestly I’m more surprised that the border with Belgium is longer than the border with Spain
I think it’s just measuring the longest contiguous border.
The border with Spain has Andorra in the middle
There isn’t a 2nd number on the east side of Andorra so I think the 623 is the total with Spain.
Arnt most borders fractals so can any border be the largest?
No, because borders are made up by humans and humans can’t write down or even measure infinitely small
It’s kind of subtle how exactly you’re using numbers when writing limits. You’re either not actually doing infinitesimals, just Cauchy sequences centered around a point, or you are and you get to enjoy the axiomatisation of the hyperreals.
You’ll have to represent each border on the same scale, so no. Also, why are you being flagged as a bot?
I was writing a bot and must have accidentally enabled it for my main account. Fuck im retarted.
Even Firefox’s coloured containerisation can’t fix stupid
Your username is cursed, thanks for bringing that combination of words to life
Anyone can just go into their account settings and mark their accout as a bot. Idk why you would though
Yes, but non-coastal borders become nice curves at a certain resolution just because they’re legally defined by points.
Coastal borders are legally vague AFAIK, since they’re defined as a nautical mile from “the shore” or something like that, but when you’re already on the ocean a matter of a few meters tends not to matter.
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Well, they aren’t fractal, that’s for sure.
It is true that we could make borders more-closely-map to physical features, and that would increase the length somewhat.
And we can define borders however we want, so that’s up to us.
But ultimately, matter is quantum, not continuous, so if we’re going to link the definition of a border to some function of physical reality, I don’t think that we can make a border arbitrarily long.
Coastlines are indeed fractals, and a similar argument could be made for any border defined by natural phenomena (so like, not the long straight US/Canada border).
Well, quantum mechanics is continuous, just in a way that often maps to discrete things when measured. I’m sure someone has written a research paper on quantum law, but I wonder if anyone who actually knows quantum mechanics has.
It is only continuous because it is random, so prior to making a measurement, you describe it in terms of a probability distribution called the state vector. The bits 0 and 1 are discrete, but if I said it was random and asked you to describe it, you would assign it a probability between 0 and 1, and thus it suddenly becomes continuous. (Although, in quantum mechanics, probability amplitudes are complex-valued.) The continuous nature of it is really something epistemic and not ontological. We only observe qubits as either 0 or 1, with discrete values, never anything in between the two.
Longest*
How did you get that wrong when it’s correct in the title…?
And what you’re talking about is not borders, it’s coasts. Borders are much more specific since they’re completely made up by us. They have very specific lengths.
It’s actually impressive how much you got wrong in your comment. If I was in the same class as you, I would have worked hard to never be in the same group as you because it’s pretty certain you’ve failed to understand many other simple and obvious things. I’m almost curious about what other things you’ve misunderstood.
Yeah, you’re honestly way out of line here.
Being correct is not a virtue. Other people are not impressed by how correct you are, or by how great a job you’ve done in correcting others.
Knowing more than others is not a virtue. Literally everyone knows less about some things than others; there is no super genius that is right or most knowledgeable about everything. For that reason (and many others), lack of knowledge is not a good reason to treat someone poorly.
You obviously care about the mechanics of clear communication. I believe that you can be better than this, that you can keep in mind why we communicate, not just how. You obviously know a lot about certain topics as well. I believe you can be better at how you demonstrate your knowledge. This time you showed off your knowledge to shame someone else. Maybe next time you could show off what you know by sharing it with someone in a helpful way.
Then people really would be impressed.
this would be a great trivia question
They also have a border with Canada at St Pierre & Miquelon.
The map only includes land borders. St Pierre and Miquelon are islands, so they have none. France has several small islands scattered around the world as legacy of the French Empire which are also absent from OP’s map for the same reason. Saint Martin on the center left is a notable exception, since it’s divided in two between France and the Netherlands.
Italy surprises me. Austria too, but I guess that juts in can really add up.
