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Re:A Smooth Curve as a Fractal Under the Third Definition by mlevental on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:14PM (#16601612)
what is 'smooth' in the diff geom sense?
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Re:A Smooth Curve as a Fractal Under the Third Definition by contravariant on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:25PM (#16601700)
In that context 'smooth' typically refers to things that are infinitely differentiable. The manifold described in the paper you linked only has derivatives of order 1.
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