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by klodolph 647 days ago
No, that would be incorrect. A plane is 2D. If you have two functions, and take their span, you get a 2D plane. It is a regular, flat, 2D plane.

When people say “hyperplane” they are generally talking about something with more than two dimensions.

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At least when the ambient vector space is more than 3-dimensional, yeah. Specifically, a hyperplane generally refers to something with codimension 1.

(So, when the ambient vector space is finite-dimensional, the dimension of a hyperplane is one less than the dimension of the ambient vector space.)