Fold a strip of paper in half two times and unfold. Put the strip on its side and adjust each angle to 90 degrees. It will look something like this:

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If you could fold the paper in half an infinite number of times and adjust every angle to 90 degrees what appears to be a fractal would be formed.

Is it a fractal? If so, what is its fractal dimension?

For a technical eaxpanation and some nice pictures of Fractals:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html

Another nice (and more easy to understand) site I quickly found via web search:

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractals/dim.html

Posted by Jer on 2006-07-27 14:51:04