Mandelbrot's Coastline Paradox Formula

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I was reading Benoit Mandelbrot's paper on the coastline paradox, where he lays out a formula for determining the length of a coastline/border/self-similar curve:

L(G)=F*G1-D

Where G represents the length of the segments used to measure the coastline, D represents the Hausdorff Dimension of the shape/coastline being measured, and F represents a "positive constant prefactor".

My question is, what is constant that F represents, and how can I find it? Mandelbrot doesn't seem to elaborate on this, and nowhere on the web that I've found explains what F represents.