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Dimension

The number of independent directions in a space

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Dimension counts how many independent directions are needed to describe a space. More precisely, it is the number of vectors in any basis of that space.

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In Mathbong, dimension helps readers interpret freedom, compression, latent structure, rank, and dimensionality reduction.

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