It’s an interesting phenomenon (and yes, my intervals were too small). I was actually expecting the reverse. His explanation reminds me of the conjunction fallacy—we overvalue specificity.
Total length of the coastline of the Pacific Ocean
Isn’t this a classic example of a divergent series, though?
It’s an interesting phenomenon (and yes, my intervals were too small). I was actually expecting the reverse. His explanation reminds me of the conjunction fallacy—we overvalue specificity.
Isn’t this a classic example of a divergent series, though?
Yes, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t decided on a uniform way to agree on a system that produces finite measurements.
I interpreted it as “the length of the coastline as represented on a high-detail world map”, which got me a good estimate.