From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!rabbit!ss Newsgroups: net.physics Title: Re: A Mathematical Question Article-I.D.: rabbit.1222 Posted: Mon Mar 14 10:30:55 1983 Received: Thu Mar 17 00:48:44 1983 References: tekecs.612 I have not worked this out, so I may be shooting my mouth off, but it seems to me that the maximum shoreline would be obtained by filling in the lake with two "comb" structures. ie --------- | ------- -------- | | ------- etc. the total length of the shoreline would depend upon how thin you want to make the water and land areas. Sharad Singhal.