Re: [ot] hypergeometry was Re: FT Combo: Super Carriers and FTL
From: "Andrew & Alex" <Al.Bri@x...>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:09:36 +1300
Subject: Re: [ot] hypergeometry was Re: FT Combo: Super Carriers and FTL
Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Then six cubes arranged in a cross folded up through the fourth
>> dimension form a hyper cube.
>
>doesn't generalise, though: we can't make a square by rolling up six
>lines. we use four.
My example was from Heinlein's "He built a crooked house"? I'm not
sure
of the exact name. The architect built a house in the form of an
unfolded
hypercube, there was an earth quake and the house folded through the
fourth
dimension to form a hypercube.
>don't give variable names an initial capital. you'll go blind.
Absolutely. I wearing glasses now 8-). How's this?
aNineDimensionArray[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i];
Andrew Martin
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