I'm hoping your hi-fi example is just a bad analogy. I'd represent it as a
structure or a one dimensional array with 10 items.
Jim
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From: "Lee Borkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:45 AM
Subject: RE: Realsim and 4D Arrays
You can do much worse than that. In genetics we talk about essentially
infinitely-dimensioned spaces, one dimension for every gene on the
chromosome.
But there are ways to comprehend it all. Imagine your hi-fi. It has maybe
ten knobs on it. Each knob can be turned to an infinite number of
positions.
If you wanted to write or store the information about the settings on your
hi-fi, you would probably use a ten-dimensional array, thus defining a
ten-dimensional 'space'. It doesn't matter that you can't visualise the
space
like you can physical space - just think of n-dimensions as n knobs on your
hi-fi,
Lee Bjork Borkman
Bjork.Net - ColdFusion Tags by Bjork
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:59 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Realsim and 4D Arrays
>
>
> Maybe its because I don't exist in some Sci-Fi Channel tv show, but I'm
> having a hard time thinking of what a 4D Array looks like.
>
> 1d = X cordinate
> 2d = X,Y cordinate
> 3d = X,Y,Z cordinate
> 4d = bah!
>
> Considering a 1d array is a line, a 2d is a plane, 3d is a cube, would 4d
> then in this sense, be 1 cube seperated by several smaller cubes
> wich are in
> turn seperated by even smaller cubes?
>
> or is it just not safe to go there?
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