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Volume and Surface Area of a Ball in Higher Dimensions (part 1 of 2)

Michael Fulkerson 2,256 4 years ago
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The volume and surface area of a ball/sphere in higher dimensions (also called the n-ball, hyperball, hypersphere) can found using the "gamma function," which a function that extends the factorial function to non-integers (so that something like 4.7! makes sense). The volume of the unit ball is highest in dimension 5. Why? Click here for Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4By6t3tyhs Volume of a ball in 4-dimensional space.

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