The article seems to miss the difference between just using low-dimensional manifolds (e.g. any line) and escalating to a higher-dimensional space to distinguish different ones (e.g. various lines in a plane).

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jerf 4 days ago | parent [-]

I don't think it was "missed" so much as "the author chose not to discuss that". Just as it isn't productive to say that the Minkowski dimension, the main point of the article, "misses" that concept... it just isn't part of the definition. There are plenty of other mathematical ways to approach the situation but if you're always too busy talking about something else to talk about any particular concept you'll never get anywhere. Every article can't teach everything about any particular subject.

	▲	HelloNurse 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		But choosing not to discuss the obvious answer to a rhetorical question is a typical device of useless engagement bait posts on social media, hidden and made worse by the somewhat difficult subject. Ignorance is a much more charitable assumption than malicious waste of time.