HYPERCUBE

Hypercube

In geometry, a hypercube is an n-dimensional analogue of a square and a cube . It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1-skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, perpendicular to each other and of the same length. A unit hypercube's longest diagonal in n-dimensions is equal to <math>\sqrt{n}</math>.

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hypercube

Noun

  1. A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the n-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer n.
  2. Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract.
  3. A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others based on analogy to a hypercube of n dimensions.


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