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What Is a Manifold?

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Re: What Is a Manifold?

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what ain't a manifold at this point

A fractal isnt a manifold. Discrete sets are an edge case. They are considered to be 0 dimensional manifolds to make them fit, but there is a not much that manifold theory has to say about them.

Re: What Is a Manifold?

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post #6

what ain't a manifold at this point

A fractal isnt a manifold. Discrete sets are an edge case. They are considered to be 0 dimensional manifolds to make them fit, but there is a not much that manifold theory has to say about them.

> A fractal isnt a manifold

Some are. A Koch curve for instance.

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