Diameter divided by radius? Circumference divided by area? Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a good measure of how irregular a region of the plane is?
something that gives 0, say, for a circular disk, and 1 (or infinity) for a fractal gasket?
the motivation is to find a measure of how irregular (or gerrymandered) a congressional district is.
Neil
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