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>Fractal curves like the Koch snowflake are likewise continuous and nowhere differentiable.

they nowhere "differentiable" in classic, smooth sense - ie. no tangent affine bundle of _whole_ dimension exist, ie. nowhere a tangent line (less tangent plane, etc...) exists. That isn't surprising of course and obviously calls for extended notion of differentiability - like a tangent "bundle" of non-whole, fractal dimension. One can even imagine a Taylor/power series using such differentiability...



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