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Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? | Quanta Magazine

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨earthscience@mander.xyz⁩

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/

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  • HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s almost like math describes natural phenomena

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    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lol, tools the words out of my mouth.

      “Why when we measure things, do they give us measurements”

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    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It does, well it isn’t the classical mathematics, but higher up math like fractals which is math but on another scale.

      Coastal length, water movement, trees branching, cloud movements… Those are all described by fractals

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