Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

[Terry Reedy]

greg wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> one minute the grenade is sitting there, stable as can be, the next 
>> it's an expanding cloud of gas and metal fragments.
> 
> I'm not sure that counts as "discontinuous" in the mathematical
> sense. If you were to film the grenade exploding and play it
> back slowly enough, the process would actually look fairly
> smooth.

radioactive emission might be a better example then.
I do not believe there is any acceleration like you see with grenade 
fragments.  Certainly, none with em radiation. Nothing....emission at 
light speed.