• user1234@fedinsfw.app
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    23 days ago

    Isn’t a cube by definition a 3 dimensional object? If it were 4 dimensional, it would no longer be a cube.

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      23 days ago

      Its a generalisation. A 4d cube is a shape that has the same length in all 4 dimensions. You can also talk of 5d cubes, 6d cubes, etc. These are commonly called n-cubes: a 4-cube is a 4d cube.

      There are also 4D spheres, even though spheres are definitionally 3D. They are called n-spheres.

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        23 days ago

        robot voice: how many 'd' is <USER_MATERNAL_PROGENITOR> a...cube...within? Ha ha. Ha ha.

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        I looked:

        ERROR: unbounded_index
        

        Does not compute. Ha ha.