Is there a name for units in dimensions higher than 3?

Chaotic42

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The first dimension is a "linear foot"
The second dimension is a "square foot"
The third dimension is a "cubic foot"

Are there terms for higher dimensions? What would you say the volume of a 25 dimensional cube is? 1 "twenty-five-bic foot"?
 

EyeMWing

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Quadratic foot. Quintuplet foot. Sextuplet foot. Septuplet foot. Beyond that, I'm not quite sure.
 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: fivespeed5
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I'm talking spacial. I need to figure out how many 1000-dimensional planck lengths are in a half sphere with a radius 25 miles.
 

Bulk Beef

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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
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I'm talking spacial. I need to figure out how many 1000-dimensional planck lengths are in a half sphere with a radius 25 miles.
Allow me to be the first to ask:

WTF are you talking about?

 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: sward666
Allow me to be the first to ask:

WTF are you talking about?

Imagine a 1000-dimensional hypersphere with a radius of 25 miles. Now cut it in half. Now tell me it's volume in planck volumes.
 

silverpig

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Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
4 = quadratic?

you should just look up the latin equivalents for this

quadratic = to the second power

quartic = to the fourth power

length
velocity = 1st time derivative of length
acceleration = 2nd time derivative of length
jerk = 3rd time derivative of length

I don't think the 4th derivative has a name.
 

HonkeyDonk

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always wondered why they called a function to the 2nd power (y = x^2) a quadratic...doesn't quad mean 4?
 

Broohaha

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linear
square
cubic
quartic
quintic
hectic
septic
octic
noctic
tentic
eleventic
twelvetic


hehe ... i think the first 9 of those are right tho