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Comment by iNic

There is a standard thought experiment where you start with a hypercube of side-length 2, centered at the origin. You then place a radius 1 sphere on each vertex of this hypercube. The question then becomes: what is the largest sphere you can place at the origin so that it is "contained" by the other spheres. As it turns out in like dimension 6 or so the radius of the center sphere exceeds 1. It will actually poke out arbitrarily far (while still being restricted by the corner spheres).
parent iNic 1 year ago

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