2d shapes have an area and 3d shapes have a volume. Is it still called volume on 4d shapes? It shouldn’t be right?

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2d shapes have an area and 3d shapes have a volume. Is it still called volume on 4d shapes? It shouldn’t be right?

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Technically this is just linguistics. Volume is to area as 4D volume is to 3D volume. You could call 2d area volume if you wanted too, it would just make talking about these things confusing.

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