What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...
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Why a ball in a box vanishes as you add more dimensions
Put a ball in a box. In two dimensions, the ball (a circle) fills most of the box (a square). In three dimensions, a sphere still takes up a good chunk of its cube. But keep adding dimensions, and ...
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