> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Andrew & Alex wrote:
wrote:
> >is that right? how many sides *does* a hypercube have?
ok. good.
> Imagine making a normal cube from paper. Six squares arranged in a
doesn't generalise, though: we can't make a square by rolling up six lines. we
use four.
> or:
don't give variable names an initial capital. you'll go blind.
Tom
> Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
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];
I remember that story! It had a big effect on me in High School. I am pretty
sure it was Asimov though. (forwarding this mesg home to remind me to look up
the anthology it was in... <G>)
-=Kurt
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wrote:
> >> Then six cubes arranged in a cross folded up through the fourth
> Wasserman, Kurt wrote:
It's Heinlein, and it's in the book "The Unpleasant Profession of Johnathan
Hoag"