Hausdorff metric on faces of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-cube

The Hausdorff metric on all faces of the unit n-cube (I ⁿ ) is considered. The notion of a cubant is used; it was introduced as an n-digit quaternary code of a k-dimensional face containing the Cartesian product of k frame unit segments and the face translation code within I ⁿ . The cubants form a semigroup with a unit (monoid) with respect to the given operation of multiplication. A calculation of Hausdorff metric based on the generalization of the Hamming metric for binary codes is considered. The supercomputing issues are discussed.