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Next we come to the “Hausdorff dimension”. This is the dimension singled out by Mandelbrot when he defined “fractal”. It is perhaps a bit more difficult to define than some of the other kinds of dimension that have been (and will be) considered. But it is also the most useful of the fractal dimensions.
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Edgar, G.A. (1990). Hausdorff Dimension. In: Measure, Topology, and Fractal Geometry. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4134-6_6
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