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army1987 comments on What was your biggest recent surprise? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: DataPacRat 09 June 2012 11:57PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 June 2012 07:52:47PM 1 point [-]

I'd feel better if I knew what I meant by "dimension" here though; it's not a vector space.

The number of parameters you need to label each element (provided the labelling is a continuous function, otherwise you can label points of R^2 with a single parameter e.g. (3.1415..., 2.7182...) -> 32.174118...)

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 June 2012 07:59:41PM *  1 point [-]

To make this precise, you need the idea of "charts" and "atlases" that witzvo references.