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[Descan]

You poor savage.

[Sirus]

You'd think that a reasonably nice hotel that has more-or-less permanent deals with a major trucking company would provide decent Internet service. But nooooooooo.

[Descan]

So we're in the right thread~

[Max White]

That remind me, I hate it when I say the axis of the forth dimension is at right angles tothe other three axises and everyone's like, "No, the forth dimension is tiiiime~~" >_>
I meant the forth physical dimension D:(

People tend to not understand the idea that maths can cover concepts that aren't very visible in the version of reality that we get to experience.
I wonder, were you programming with arrays, by any chance?

[Xantalos]

At the risk of sounding (even more) like an idiot, what is the fourth dimension if not time? The three dimensions of space I know of are length, width, and (closest word I can think of at the moment) depth. If there's a fourth, I don't know what it is.

Left, right, up, down.
/deliberatelystupid

[Descan]

It's just as well you can't watch those, Sirus. They're not the videos I thought they were, and weren't as informative as I'd hoped. :C

[Sirus]

Oh vell. I'm not some mathematical genius, so I doubt such bizarre ideas would ever be an issue for me :/
Hell, for the foreseeable future I won't have to worry about anything more complicated than division.

[Vector]

At the risk of sounding (even more) like an idiot, what is the fourth dimension if not time? The three dimensions of space I know of are length, width, and (closest word I can think of at the moment) depth. If there's a fourth, I don't know what it is.

Left, right, up, down.
/deliberatelystupid

Left₁ Left₂ Left₃ Left₄

[Skyrunner]

That remind me, I hate it when I say the axis of the forth dimension is at right angles tothe other three axises and everyone's like, "No, the forth dimension is tiiiime~~" >_>
I meant the forth physical dimension D:(

People tend to not understand the idea that maths can cover concepts that aren't very visible in the version of reality that we get to experience.
I wonder, were you programming with arrays, by any chance?

No, just talking. The topic happene to turn up!
HMM I wonder how you access a 4-dimensional array.
1d: x
2d: x + width * y
3d(iirc): (x + width*y)*z?

[Max White]

Depends on language || how you have structured it yourself.
If you are working in a language that natively supports nth dimensional arrays, you are going to have an easy time, otherwise x + (y * A) + (z * A * B) + (m * A * B * C) will work for 4d, where uppercase is the size of the dimension.

[Skyrunner]

That's interesting.

[Max White]

If you care about putting things is a form preferable to mathematicians then A(B(Cm + z) + y) + x is also good, but honestly I feel it destroys that thing called cohesion.

[scriver]

Bah, math. It's just applied language.

[SalmonGod]

Bah, language.  It's just applied evolution.

[Xantalos]

Bah, evolution. It's just applied - oh wait I can't tell you.
It's just applied entropy.
Something.

* Xantalos scuttles out under the door