eli5 please explain to me “n” dimensions

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I get 1, 2, and 3 dimensions and their visual representations. For instance, 3-dimensional space has width, length, and depth but how about a 6-dimensional space, how can we grasp it in n intuitive manner free of mathematical analysis?

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When I was in the uni doing the math (I am a sw developper) the professor told us: **WE don’t know how these multi dimensional spaces look like, but we can calculate in them.**

And he was a really good in explanation and really into the math. One time he showed us a picture of something and was really excited about it – was some visual representation of some function and big math problem. Nobody told him we don’t care, we were so happy for him as he was.

Edit> he was talking about 16-dimension space, but it still applies to 6d IMO.

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