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Penteract vs Tesseract - What's the difference?

penteract | tesseract |

In mathematics terms the difference between penteract and tesseract

is that penteract is a five-dimensional hypercube while tesseract is the four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (in the same way a cube is bounded by six squares).

penteract

English

(wikipedia penteract)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mathematics) A five-dimensional hypercube

    • tesseract

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (in the same way a cube is bounded by six squares).
  • (science fiction) Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.

    • Synonyms

    * (analogue of a cube) four-dimensional hypercube, , octachoron, tetracube

    Hypernyms

    * hypercube, polytope

    See also

    * (wikipedia "tesseract") * Mathworld article on the tesseract