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248 points nabla9 | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.516s | source
1. brazzy ◴[] No.41836884[source]
> The volume of the unit -sphere goes to 0 as grows! A high dimensional unit sphere encloses almost no volume! The volume increases from dimensions one to five, but begins decreasing rapidly toward 0 after dimension six.

What the absolute fuck?

That one caught me truly off guard. I don't think "counterintuitive" is a strong enough word.

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2. Anotheroneagain ◴[] No.41943758[source]
I don't think this is actually true - the actual volume of the sphere grows, but the volume of one grows even faster.