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06-10-2015, 06:34 PM
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Tesseract?

Somewhere yesterday I came across the word "tesseract" - can't remember in what context. I've just looked in the dictionary (Concise Oxford) and it's not there. "Tessera" is the little square used in mosaic, but "tesseract" is not given.
Any ideas folks?
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Re: Tesseract?

Oh well, just looked on Wikipedia - and it's an optical character recognition system (free software) etc.

Sorry about that - should have thought to look before I asked
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In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of 6 square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of 8 cubical cells. The tesseract is one of the six convex regular 4-polytopes.
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Originally Posted by Sweetsue ->
Somewhere yesterday I came across the word "tesseract" - can't remember in what context. I've just looked in the dictionary (Concise Oxford) and it's not there. "Tessera" is the little square used in mosaic, but "tesseract" is not given.
Any ideas folks?
I thought it was Twizard having a bad corset day !
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Originally Posted by Silver Tabby ->
I thought it was Twizard having a bad corset day !
Snap! so did I.
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Originally Posted by Mags ->





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Gosh! Didn't see that bit
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Oi I heard that!
 

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