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I can find the "hyper volume" of a 4-Dimensional hyper sphere, but do you know any formulas for any higher dimensional hyper spheres? ( I would prefer for 5-Dimensions, but it does not matter.)


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The definition of an "n-sphere" gets abstract as "n" increases. For those wanting to dig into this definition I suggest starting with the website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere

Like most "generalized math" you pay the price of "intuitive" for keeping things "general".

Vince Calder


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