Tesseract 47

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I have recently developed a strong interest for the Tesseract... and the number 47.
The number 47 because, for me it appears to turn up most in my life... more than any other number and with the tesseract It's unexplained why I am so fascinated by it.

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

I had a brief obsession with tesseracts after watching the movie Hypercube on the sci-fi channel. Then I watched it again and said "Hey! This movie sucks!" and it kind of faded... Four dimensions are pretty complicated to try and comprehend without some kind of analogy to make it easier (like how they explain the wormhole theory).

Yeah Hypercube Iis a kinda sucky movie although I like the other two cube films.

I have been trying to visualize 4-d shapes for some time. I understand them, but can't figure out the rotation.

That is one ultra-cool animated gif, there, E7ernal

Thanks, I found it on wikipedia

How Strange:

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I too am intrigued by mathematical curiosities such as hypercubes and quadratic prime numbers.
47 is the third of forty quadratic primes starting at 41 and ending at 1601. They are generated by
the following formula: P=X^2 + X + 41 where X = 0 to 39. By the way 53 is the fourth prime number
in the series, and this is my 53rd post.

Also, 47 pops up often in Star Trek episodes.

I'm bemused (and got distracted earlier on when you first started this thread), but...

What on earth has the number 47 got to do with tesseracts?

Nothing I just wanted to keep it all in one thread

From that animation it looks like it may be possible to construct such an object... but I guess it would be more of a drawing.

When you said "tessarect" I thought you meant a slimy worm, or an alien, for some reason...

Well actually, some people have constructed Escher structures - but you have to look at them from a certain angle, or else they're distorted.

I thought you were talking about the tesseract from A Wrinkle in Time. I didn't know they actually existed. Stupid me...