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A unit cube with a hole cut through it, large enough to allow Prince Rupert's cube to pass. In geometry, Prince Rupert's cube is the largest cube that can pass through a hole cut through a unit cube without splitting it into separate pieces. Its side length is approximately 1.06, 6% larger than the side length 1 of the unit cube through which ...
The term unit cube or unit hypercube is also used for hypercubes, or "cubes" in n-dimensional spaces, for values of n other than 3 and edge length 1. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Sometimes the term "unit cube" refers in specific to the set [0, 1] n of all n -tuples of numbers in the interval [0, 1].
In algebraic terms, doubling a unit cube requires the construction of a line segment of length x, where x 3 = 2; in other words, x = , the cube root of two. This is because a cube of side length 1 has a volume of 1 3 = 1 , and a cube of twice that volume (a volume of 2) has a side length of the cube root of 2.
Equivalently, an elementary cube is any translate of a unit cube [,] embedded in Euclidean space (for some , {} with ). [3] A set X ⊆ R d {\displaystyle X\subseteq \mathbf {R} ^{d}} is a cubical complex (or cubical set ) if it can be written as a union of elementary cubes (or possibly, is homeomorphic to such a set).
In geometry, a hypercube is an n-dimensional analogue of a square (n = 2) and a cube (n = 3); the special case for n = 4 is known as a tesseract.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.
Peano was motivated by Georg Cantor's earlier counterintuitive result that the infinite number of points in a unit interval is the same cardinality as the infinite number of points in any finite-dimensional manifold, such as the unit square. The problem Peano solved was whether such a mapping could be continuous; i.e., a curve that fills a space.
Doubling the cube is the construction, using only a straightedge and compass, of the edge of a cube that has twice the volume of a cube with a given edge. This is impossible because the cube root of 2, though algebraic, cannot be computed from integers by addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and taking square roots.
can be drawn as a unit distance graph in the Euclidean plane by using the construction of the hypercube graph from subsets of a set of n elements, choosing a distinct unit vector for each set element, and placing the vertex corresponding to the set S at the sum of the vectors in S. is a n-vertex-connected graph, by Balinski's theorem.