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| | Chaos and Fractals in Financial Markets, Part 3, by J. Orlin Grabbe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | To be consistent, then, we must say with respect to the Sierpinski carpet, which is made up of an infinite number of disconnected loops, each of one dimension, that it has a topological dimension of one. |
 | | But, once we measure all the holes in the carpet, we discovered that what we are left with is carpet that has been entirely consumed by holes. |
 | | If instead we have a Sierpinski carpet that is 9 on each side, then to calculate the "area", we note that the number of Sierpinski copies of the initial square which has a side of length 1 is (dividing each side into r = 9 parts) N = r |
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