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> Is it conventional for mathematicians to talk about “the dimensions” like this

There is an old joke:

How do you imagine a 126-dimensional space? - Simple: imagine an n-dimensional space and set n=126.



Actually not much of a joke: any kind of array, counting, incremental construction etc. involved in a generic multidimensional space is cut to measure to a certain n value, other basic aspects do not depend on n, leaving out only interesting advanced properties.




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