Were you disagreeing with me by pointing out that I was giving a
dimensionless ratio, Xiao-Yong Jin? I'm not sure I see that as
disagreement, simply as a factual statement.

That's how you compare things that are of different dimensions (and
sometimes of different types). This one is a very important measure if
you're running experiments or semirandom probes on a multidimensional space
-- some experimental setups can reduce the dimensionality at some other
cost.

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:13 AM Jimmy Gauvin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I will side with Xiao-Yong Jin,
>
> how does one compare 0.2 meters, 0.04 square meters, 0.008 cubic meters and
> so on ?
>
> @Don You can also view gravity as a deformation of space. The black hole
> just bends space so much that all paths just come back to it whatever the
> speed you are traveling at.
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Xiao-Yong Jin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > That's a dimensionless ratio.
> >
> > > On Aug 18, 2017, at 11:19 AM, William Tanksley, Jr <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sure you can compare; the difference is how hard it is to find the
> sphere
> > > when all you have is a bounding box and an RNG.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 7:16 AM Xiao-Yong Jin <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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"
> > >>>> Message-ID:
> > >>>>     <[email protected]>
> > >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 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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