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Re: Hypercube



Regarding Jim Green's question and plea:
...
What is a "Hypercube" and what is its importance?

Help!!!

A hypercube is a generic D-fold Cartesian (i.e. direct) product of a
line segment taken with itself. Here D is the dimensionality of the
hypercube. (When D=1 it is just a line segment; when D=2 it is a square;
when D=3 it is an ordinary cube; when D>3 it is just called a
'hypercube', or sometimes, 'D-dimensional cube' or 'D-dimensional
hypercube', etc.)

What is their importance? Well, what is the importance of a square or
a line segment? They are at least that important.

David Bowman
David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu