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There are several variant notions of “dimension” that may be classified as fractal dimensions. The most widely used is known as the Hausdorff dimension. It will be considered in Chapter 6. We begin here with the similarity dimension, a fractal dimension that is easier to define (but not as useful).
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Edgar, G.A. (1990). Self-Similarity. In: Measure, Topology, and Fractal Geometry. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4134-6_4
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