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Can someone ELI5 what it even means to solve something in a 4th-32nd+ dimension? Or what those dimensions are I guess?
I always heard (though didn't really understand either) that the 4th dimension has something to do with time in space time, but this article makes it sound like you could buy 26D glasses or something.
In math, a dimension doesn't have to be tied to our real physical dimensions. In two dimensions, you need two values to represent a point (a, b). In three dimensions, you need three values, (a, b, c). It simply keeps going, more dimensions means more values. Of course it gets harder to visualize, but the math keeps working.