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mk  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Do You Measure A Coastline?

    He started investigating a possible link between border length and the probability of war.

Did anything come of this? Although I doubt that length would correlate, perhaps circuitousness might? At least when it's not due to following the contours of a river. It seems that friendly countries would be more comfortable with straighter lines dividing them.





Jowser  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If i'm honest, I really don't know. I do know it was during the research of his paper 'Statistics of deadly quarrels'. So maybe some kind of conclusions could be found there, but I haven't looked into it further.