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Fractal

a shape with detail at every scale that looks (statistically) like itself when magnified. Coined by Mandelbrot, 1975.

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Coastline paradoxthe measured length keeps growing as your measuring stick shrinks, so there's no single true coastline length.
Self-similaritythe part resembles the whole. Fractal dimension = a fraction (e.g. 1.25) measuring how 'rough' or space-filling it is.