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Re:Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for bi... by Scarblac on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @07:50AM (#20273250)
Aren't they synonyms?
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Re:Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for bi... by close04 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @08:11AM (#20273385)
I'd rather call them parameters or indexes. Certainly not dimensions analogous to 1/2/3D.

People have been storing things in 5D on wood substrate for years. Like clothes in the closet (the 2 extra Ds might be type and color).

The terminology is clearly mean to impress the general audience that would normally not even bother to read a classic "engineering" title.

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