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Conference rusure::math

Title:Mathematics at DEC
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2083
Total number of notes:14613

280.0. "> 4D Hypercube?" by SUPER::MATTHEWS () Fri May 03 1985 15:58

There is a discussion raging in note 67 of SUMMIT::SYS$NOTES:JOYOFLEX about
whether the word "hypercube" can be used for a cube in more than four
dimensions. Anyone who can answer with authority, or who just feels like
arguing, come on over.

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280.1FUTBAL::STANFri May 03 1985 20:282
Hypercube is valid for any number of dimensions.
Tesseract refers to the 4-dimensional hypercube in particular.
280.2PIPA::JANZENTue May 14 1985 17:087
Tesseract was also the name of a good electronic music show on KPFK in
Los Angeles from about 1970 to about 1976, hosted by Phil Mendelssohn.  His 
show and mine on KCSN had similar content.

Another good title on KPFK was Zymurgy, a music show with David Cloud.
Zymurgy is the art of making wine.
Thomas
280.3I knew Tesseract wellMLCSSE::MILLERSun Nov 29 1987 02:0310
       Tesseract was my next door neighbor when I was living in N.Y.C.
    He was crazy and would often throw hypercubes against the walls
    at 3 a.m. and wake me up. One day the cops came and when they tried
    to restrain him, he accidentally knocked a candle over and set the
    apartment building on fire. When the fire department came and tried
    to put the fire out, they discovered that the water hydrant was
    not working. That is because the water and sewer department was
    on strike. The strike was settled the following week and the sewer
    workers received a 10% raise.            
    
280.4Were those Klein hydrants?SQM::HALLYBProfitus InterruptusSun Nov 29 1987 22:078
    On a hot steamy NYC day, what did Tesseract put in his glass of tea?

    Ice tesseracts, of course.
    
    If such an object really did exist, how would it work compared to
    say 8 ice cubes?

      John
280.5Where is Dirac when you need him?MLCSSE::MILLERTue Dec 01 1987 00:3016
      Question 1
   
      If I put ice hyper-icecubes into a glass of tea, do I have to be 
      in hyperspace in order to drink it? 
   
      Question 2
    
      If I put hyper-icecubes into a glass of tea in hyperspace, do I
      have to be in hyperspace in order to drink it?
                                          
      Question 3
    
      If I am determining the answer to these questions in normal space
      during working hours does DEC have the right to dock my wages
      in normal space?