But be careful:
By "distance", I mean the length of the shortest path moving inside the Sierpiński triangle, not the usual distance between points in the plane.
Also: we compute the "average" distance using the natural measure on the Sierpiński triangle, not Lebesgue measure.
(2/n)
https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310109
John Carlos Baez
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