Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:

> In message <slrnh33j2b.4bu.peter at box8.pjb.com.au>, Peter Billam wrote:
>
>> Are there any modules, packages, whatever, that will
>> measure the fractal dimensions of a dataset, e.g. a time-series ?
>
> I don't think any countable set, even a countably-infinite set, can have a 
> fractal dimension. It's got to be uncountably infinite, and therefore 
> uncomputable.

I think there are attempts to estimate the fractal dimension of a set
using a finite sample from this set.  But I can't remember where I got
this thought from!

-- 
Arnaud