You can't compare quantities with different dimensions.
It's meaningless, like saying the water in your cup in cm^3 is larger than your 
height in cm.

> On Aug 17, 2017, at 9:09 PM, David Lambert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Largest spheres found in dimensionality near five and a quarter.
> 
> Beautiful mathematics, and need string theory limit itself to integral 
> dimensions?
> 
>   boxdraw_j_ 1
>   load'~addons/math/misc/amoeba.ijs'
>   sphvol=: (1p1&^%!)@-:@] * ^
>   g=: -@:(1&sphvol)
>   g amoeba(<16)Y=:2 1$4.1 5.8
> +-------+--------+
> |5.25692|_5.27777|
> +-------+--------+
> 
> 
> On 08/16/2017 08:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:33:09 +0000
>> From: Ben Gorte - CITG<[email protected]>
>> To:"[email protected]"  <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] "n-volume" of an "n-sphere"
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>> 
>> A little surprise (to me) was
>>    plot 1 sphvol i.30
>> (for example)
>> 
>> Can you predict it?
>> 
>> greetings,
>> Ben
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Programming [[email protected]] on behalf of 
>> Raul Miller [[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 19:55
>> To: Programming forum
>> Subject: [Jprogramming] "n-volume" of an "n-sphere"
>> 
>>    sphvol=: (1p1&^%!)@-:@] * ^
>>    1 sphvol 3
>> 4.18879
>>    1 sphvol i.7
>> 1 2 3.14159 4.18879 4.9348 5.26379 5.16771
>> 
>> Left argument is the radius of the "n-sphere".
>> 
>> Right argument is the number of dimensions.
>> 
>> I put "n-volume" in quotes, because if the dimension is 2 (for
>> example), the "n-volume" is what we call the area of the circle. (And
>> if the dimension is 1 that "n-volume" is the length of a line
>> segment).
>> 
>> Anyways, I stumbled across this and thought it might be interesting
>> for someone else.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --
>> Raul
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