The coastline paradox is a phenomenon that goes against our intuition. There is no measurement that gives consensus on what is the length of a country's coastline.

What is the cause? It is that the extension of a coast will depend on the measuring instrument that we use. The lower the rule used we will obtain a higher value. But which is the limit? The more precision we look for, the lower the piece of information will be.

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot raised this question in 1967 with his work "How Long Is the Coast of Great Britain?" A few years later he would present his famous fractals. They are self-similar figures, which we can see both in nature and in art.

The intricate Norwegian coast, full of fjords, fissures and archipelagos, reminds us of the shape of a fractal and presents us the unknown on the best way to measure a coast.

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