Hypercube

In the following perspective projections, cube is 3-cube and tesseract is 4-cube.

In geometry, a hypercube is an n-dimensional analogue of a square (n = 2) and a cube (n = 3). 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 .

An n-dimensional hypercube is more commonly referred to as an n-cube or sometimes as an n-dimensional cube.[1][2] The term measure polytope (originally from Elte, 1912)[3] is also used, notably in the work of H. S. M. Coxeter who also labels the hypercubes the γn polytopes.[4]

The hypercube is the special case of a hyperrectangle (also called an n-orthotope).

A unit hypercube is a hypercube whose side has length one unit. Often, the hypercube whose corners (or vertices) are the 2n points in Rn with each coordinate equal to 0 or 1 is called the unit hypercube.

  1. ^ Paul Dooren; Luc Ridder. "An adaptive algorithm for numerical integration over an n-dimensional cube".
  2. ^ Xiaofan Yang; Yuan Tang. "A (4n − 9)/3 diagnosis algorithm on n-dimensional cube network".
  3. ^ Elte, E. L. (1912). "IV, Five dimensional semiregular polytope". The Semiregular Polytopes of the Hyperspaces. Netherlands: University of Groningen. ISBN 141817968X.
  4. ^ Coxeter 1973, pp. 122–123, §7.2 see illustration Fig 7.2C.

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