Thursday, February 10, 2011

Koch Snowflake has infinite perimeter

Koch Snowflake (first six iterations):

Koch Snowflake has infinite perimeter

However, the area of Koch Snowflake is "finite" - 0.6928 sqm

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for this nice calculation. My son and I enjoyed the idea of driving around a Koch snowflake whose first-iteration edge measured 1 inch. At 60 miles per hour, it would take about 20 minutes to get around a Koch snowflake at its 32nd iteration!