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Tesseract Pentatope Picking

elasolova · Probability ·

First, some definitions are given:
  • Simplex is the generalization of line-segments (1d) or triangles (2d) to n-dimensions. Tetrahedron is the well-known 3-simplex. Pentatope then is the 4-simplex.
  • Similarly, hypercube is the generalization of squares (2d) or cubes (3d) to n-dimensions. Tesseract is the 4-dimensional hypercube.

  • Then the question builds up as follows:
    In line line picking, the expected length of picked line-segment is shown to be 13.
    Up one dimension, namely in square triangle picking, the expected area of picked triangle is analytically given as 11144.
    Up one more, namely in cube tetrahedron picking it gets a bit complicated, but there is again an analytic answer for the expected volume of picked tetrahedron, 3977216000π22160.

    What about going one more up, namely tesseract pentatope picking? Since an analytic answer is hard to find, devise a numerical solution that gives the expected content of picked pentatope rounded to 6 decimal places.

    There might be some inaccuracy in my calculation for the time being...