Petter comments on Sphere packing and logical uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Petter 13 May 2016 08:35:55AM 0 points [-]

The number 0.0000000000000000000000000001 does not tell me much. Numbers in high dimensions are tricky. For example, the volume of a unit sphere decays exponentially with dimension. A unit sphere in dimension 24 has very little volume.