What is the fourth dimensional equivalent of volume?
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Hypervolume, which is bounded by 3D hypersurfaces.BillTre said:2D has areas.
3D has volumes.
what are 4D spaces called?
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Hypervolume is the only thing I've found so far.
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Does 3D hypersurface track?renormalize said:Hypervolume, which is bounded by 3D hypersurfaces.
Do 2D denizens say "A 3D space is called a volume which is bounded by 2D hyper lines"?
Yeah, I guess it does:
"A 2D hypersurface is a mathematical term for what is typically called an ordinary surface in three-dimensional space. More generally, in mathematics, a hypersurface is an object (a manifold or variety) that has a dimension exactly one less than the dimension of the space it is embedded in."
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A 4D sphere is a hypersphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-sphere#Properties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-sphere#Properties
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Yes, and hypercubes, hypertetrahedra.Baluncore said:A 4D sphere is a hypersphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-sphere#Properties
Tesseract is my trigger word, so I think it's about time enough that I mention (as I do every few years) that I came very close to building my own (3D shadow of) a fully-articulated hypercube.
I solved all the enginering problems with 3D prototyping and was just gearing up to print the final parts when I discovered that someone had beaten me to it.
So that's about two decades of spare time I'll never get back.
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