4D Cube

I figured that if I had a cube that was somehow 4D (a tesseract), its diagonal (d_4) would be 2-times the length of its base side (a), and its volume would be a^4. It partly shows that dr. Michio Kaku's affirmation about formulas becoming simpler on higher dimensions is true. A tesseract to a cube is like what a cube is to a square. The thing is, that we can't really imagine something like a "4D volume", though it can be expressed mathematically (even for n-th dimension).

3D Cube:

V_3 = a*a*a = a^3 (a 3D cube has 3 dimensions)
P_3 = 6*a*a = 6*a^2 (6 faces, each with a 2D surface of a^2)
d_3 = sqrt((a*sqrt(2))^2+a^2) = a*sqrt(3) (Pythagorean theorem)

4D Cube (Tesseract):

V_4 = a*a*a*a = a^4 (a 4D cube would have 4 "sides")
P_4 = 24*a^2 = 4*P_3 (count faces of a cube made from 8 cubes)
d_4 = sqrt((a*sqrt(3))^2+a^2) = 2*a (Pythagorean theorem again)

This means that a N-dimensional "cube" (the object should have its own name for each dimension) would have a diagonal: a*sqrt(N). And here is a proof that I'm not wrong.

Linux script: wa

I've created this simple and potentially useful Linux script and named it "wa"
Here it is:

#!/bin/sh
while [ $1 ]
do
clear
$1
if `test $2`
then
sleep $2
else
sleep 1
fi
done

It can be used for example for printing out different statuses, for example if you are waiting for somebody to login to the Linux box, you could use ./wa w 1
It will run a "w" command on a clean screen every second, so you don't have to constantly keep pressing w [enter] w [enter] ...
I think it's simple but convenient - the one thing Linux is missing ^^

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