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- From: heller@Think.COM (Steve Heller)
- Subject: Re: Torus vs. Hypercube
- In-Reply-To: David Karr's message of Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:22:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.210648.18508@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec27.201910.28352@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
- <1992Dec29.142815.27527@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 12:20:20
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- In article <1992Dec29.142815.27527@hubcap.clemson.edu> David Karr <karr@cs.cornell.EDU> writes:
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- In article <1992Dec27.201910.28352@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> bai@rainier.eng.ohio-state.edu (Baback A. Izadi) writes:
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- >Couple of weeks ago, I think heard a speaker claiming that
- >2-dimensional Torus and hypercube have basically the same
- >topology. How could this be true?
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- First of all, I was under the impression that the usual interpretation
- of a "torus" network was *always* 2-D. Perhaps the speaker meant "2-D
- hypercube," i.e. the 4-node hypercube, which would in fact match the
- 4-node 2x2 torus.
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- To me, if unmodified, "grid" implies 2D, but I have no problem with either
- 3D grid or 3D torus, or higher dimensions of both.
-
- Tommy Kelly mentioned that, both hypercubes and torii are k-ary n-cubes. I
- usually think of hypercubes and grids in this fashion, but it's a small
- difference.
-
- Also, it turns out the 16-node (4-D) hypercube and the 16-node 4x4 torus
- have the same topology. But that's the largest number of nodes for
- which this can occur, because in higher dimensions the hypercube nodes
- have degree 5 or greater, but the torus nodes have degree 4.
-
- The fact that the 4^2 torus is isomorphic to the binary 4-cube led to an
- interesting question here at TMC about six months ago.
-
- Is the 4^k torus isomorphic to the binary 2k-cube?
-
- The answer and the proof (which I found quite fun) is left as an excercise
- to the reader.
-
- -steve
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-