Re:High-dimensional spheres are "spikey"
by tel on Saturday May 19, 2012 @03:49PM
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As one last point about how the problem is caused by just how big high dimensional spaces are, remember that the n-dimensional unit sphere contains every d-dimensional unit sphere for d <= n.
The spheres are a strictly increasing sequence of sets, but the measures we call "volume" are growing even faster.
The spheres are a strictly increasing sequence of sets, but the measures we call "volume" are growing even faster.