• AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 hours ago

    I mean typically people refer to planes as hyperplanes once you go past 3D, but I’ve definitely heard them just called “planes” too

    Hyperplanes are just a generalization of planes to higher dimensions. Often you hear the term when working with vectors because, like in 3D, you can define an n-dimensional hyperplane by a surface normal vector and a point. All lines perpendicular (orthogonal) to that normal vector which pass through the point form the plane.

    It’s a useful concept and since we already have a word for that kind of structure in 3D space we just use the same term for it in other dimensions