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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.
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.
Mis 90

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