Topic: Fractal UK?
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Tue 03/28/17 02:54 PM
Is the UK population a fractal? Roughly 50 million people in England, roughly 5 million people in Scotland and roughly 500,000 people in Cornwall. The common number is 5.
Sorry I couldn't get Wales to fit, that has to shuffle over with Ireland 3 million in each.

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Wed 03/29/17 04:19 PM
What???

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Wed 03/29/17 04:23 PM
No. That is a proportion. Fractals are a lot more complicated. Perhaps you are confusing the word "Fraction" with "Fractal." They aren't related, aside from the shared letters.

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Thu 03/30/17 07:07 AM

No. That is a proportion. Fractals are a lot more complicated. Perhaps you are confusing the word "Fraction" with "Fractal." They aren't related, aside from the shared letters.

I thought fractals are same similar in proportion, but only differ in scale.

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Sat 04/01/17 08:23 PM
Ah, no. You can read about fractals online easily enough.

The English language can be tricky and amusingly confusing many times. Words which would seem to be closely related are sometimes not so.

Fraction

Fractal

Fractious

Fracking

All begin with "Frac," but when you look them up, you find that they have nothing in common at all.

Fraction = a portion of something larger, OR a ratio of numbers, one divided by the other (such as 1/2)

Fractal = a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowflakes) in which similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and in describing partly random or chaotic phenomena such as crystal growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation.

Fractious = irritable, quarrelsome, grumpy, prone to arguing.

Fracking = a relatively new form of extracting oil from certain kinds of rocky substrates.

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Sat 04/01/17 10:03 PM
Edited by dreamerana on Sat 04/01/17 10:03 PM

Ah, no. You can read about fractals online easily enough.

The English language can be tricky and amusingly confusing many times. Words which would seem to be closely related are sometimes not so.

Fraction

Fractal

Fractious

Fracking

All begin with "Frac," but when you look them up, you find that they have nothing in common at all.

Fraction = a portion of something larger, OR a ratio of numbers, one divided by the other (such as 1/2)

Fractal = a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowflakes) in which similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and in describing partly random or chaotic phenomena such as crystal growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation.

Fractious = irritable, quarrelsome, grumpy, prone to arguing.

Fracking = a relatively new form of extracting oil from certain kinds of rocky substrates.

Love a great mind.
I admire that you explain without put downs

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Wed 04/12/17 03:39 AM
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cool... but do you write them in American English or British English?