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In fractal geometry, the Minkowski-Bouligand dimension,
also known as Minkowski dimension or box-counting dimension,
is a way of determining the fractal dimension of a set S in a Euclidean space Rn,
or more generally in a metric space (X, d).
It is named after the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski and
the French mathematician Georges Bouligand.


To calculate this dimension for a fractal S,
imagine this fractal lying on an evenly spaced grid,
and count how many boxes are required to cover the set.

The box-counting dimension is calculated by seeing how this number changes
as we make the grid finer by applying a box-counting algorithm.

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