A unit cube, more formally a cube of side 1, is a
cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. Viewed from a corner it is a hexagon and its net is usually depicted as a cross.
The cube is the only r ...
whose sides are 1 unit long.
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[.] The volume of a 3-dimensional unit cube is 1 cubic unit, and its total surface area is 6 square units.
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Unit hypercube
The term ''unit cube'' or unit hypercube is also used for
hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, ...
s, or "cubes" in
''n''-dimensional spaces, for values of ''n'' other than 3 and edge length 1.
Sometimes the term "unit cube" refers in specific to the set
, 1sup>''n'' of all ''n''-tuples of numbers in the interval
, 1
The length of the longest diagonal of a unit hypercube of ''n'' dimensions is
, the square root of ''n'' and the (Euclidean) length of the vector (1,1,1,....1,1) in ''n''-dimensional space.
See also
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Doubling the cube
Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient geometric problem. Given the edge of a cube, the problem requires the construction of the edge of a second cube whose volume is double that of the first. As with the related pro ...
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K-cell
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Robbins constant In geometry, the mean line segment length is the average length of a line segment connecting two points chosen uniformly at random in a given shape. In other words, it is the expected Euclidean distance between two random points, where each point ...
, the average distance between two random points in a unit cube
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Tychonoff cube In mathematics, more specifically in general topology, the Tychonoff cube is the generalization of the unit cube from the product of a finite number of unit intervals to the product of an infinite, even uncountable number of unit intervals. The Tyc ...
, an infinite-dimensional analogue of the unit cube
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Unit square
In mathematics, a unit square is a square whose sides have length . Often, ''the'' unit square refers specifically to the square in the Cartesian plane with corners at the four points ), , , and .
Cartesian coordinates
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Unit sphere
In mathematics, a unit sphere is simply a sphere of radius one around a given center. More generally, it is the set of points of distance 1 from a fixed central point, where different norms can be used as general notions of "distance". A unit b ...
References
External links
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Euclidean solid geometry
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