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- A vertical line through such an object sees only an infinite number of points which occur as clusters of clusters of clusters of . . . dust.
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- Such a set of points form a Cantor set . It is convenient to ascribe a non-integer dimension to such sets.
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- see Mandelbrot "The fractal geometry of nature"
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