▲ 2 ▼ Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? (www.quantamagazine.org) submitted 2 months ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se comment fedilink hide all child comments Comments
[–] HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (2 children) It's almost like math describes natural phenomena permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago* Lol, took the words out of my mouth. "Why when we measure things, do they give us measurements" permalink fedilink source parent [–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago It does, well it isn't the classical mathematics, but higher up math like fractals which is math but on another scale. Coastal length, water movement, trees branching, cloud movements... Those are all described by fractals permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago* Lol, took the words out of my mouth. "Why when we measure things, do they give us measurements" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago It does, well it isn't the classical mathematics, but higher up math like fractals which is math but on another scale. Coastal length, water movement, trees branching, cloud movements... Those are all described by fractals permalink fedilink source parent
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