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Title text: I'm embarrassed to say I've apparently been beaten to this idea by a few people, including two-time BAHFest winner, Louis Evans. There are too many nerds writing jokes these days, dammit. |
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- Mr. President, I'm afraid we can't build your border wall.
- The "coastline paradox" tells us that because coastlines are self-similar, the concept of length doesn't apply. The smaller the measuring stick we use, the greater the length we will measure.
- What? Why=
- Part of the u.S.-mexico border is the "coastline" of the rio grande. Therefore we must conclude that any border wall would be of infinite length
- Therefore, it will cost infinity dollars, which will be a non-starter with deficit hawks.
- What if we just use bigger measuring sticks?
- No can do.
- That'd result in us losing an arbitrarily small quantity of land, which would make us look weak on the world stage.
- If the russians get word that we're measuring a fractal-dimension border with a euclidean ruler, they'll land troops in washington by tomorrow morning.
- This is a tough situation. I'd better call the secretary of mathematics.
- Hello, I need to measure a thing.
- Whoa, slow down. Could you please state the problem more generally.P
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- What's "measure'? What's "thing" Define your terms.
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