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Re:Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to 'Kiss' by Sharlin on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:34PM (#42730522)
Yes, but that can be better understood as the hypercube becoming more pointy, not the sphere. And it's true; the cube's vertices get arbitrarily far from the origin, while the centers of its faces stay at ±1.

There are other ways in which a hypersphere can be considered "pointy", though; for example, consider a point lying on the surface being moved some epsilon distance to a random direction. As the dimension increases, the probability that the point ends up inside the sphere approaches zero – the sphere spans a smaller and smaller fraction of the "sky".

Re:Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to 'Kiss' by senderista on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:44PM (#42730647)
Specifically, of course, d = sqrt(N), where N is dimension and d is distance of a vertex of the unit hypercube from the origin.