Hi Mike,

Thanks for you're interest, Mike. I was afraid no one would bother to read my post.

***In the preceding quotes where you are raking Luis over the coals, there is a little omission -- "quantification." Yes, information is lost -- in information theory, the question is, "How much information is lost?"***

Again, thanks for asking. That's a fair question. The lost information is easy to quantify in terms of edges. A tesseract, or hypercube, has 32 edges. Luis' degenerate projection has 20 edges. So the loss is 12 edges. These are the 12 edges of the cube which has been degenerated into a single point at the center of his figure.

A similar quantification could easily be done in terms of vertices or faces. Essentially, the information contained in one cube has been lost.

Warm regards,

Paul

• I forgot the title of this post...really ! - carefuluniverse - April 29, 2002 - 06:10 UTC
  • You are a delight, Mike - pmartin - April 29, 2002 - 06:51 UTC
    • Maybe I should draw a picture of this in 2-D - carefuluniverse - April 29, 2002 - 15:31 UTC
      • Yes, you should - pmartin - April 29, 2002 - 18:53 UTC
        • while I'm busy working for free, I'll url this your way - carefuluniverse - April 29, 2002 - 21:49 UTC
          • :) - luis_hamburgh - May 10, 2002 - 01:56 UTC
  • The Nobel -- she's all mine!!! - luis_hamburgh - May 10, 2002 - 01:49 UTC