This phenomenon has been written up many times, and some of those have been submitted here previously, with some discussion. For those who might be interested to see those previous discussions, here are two of them:
To add to this list: Richard Hamming includes a section on this in his n-dimensional spaces talk from "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" lectures [0]. Stripe Press also recently re-published a beautiful copy of the print version of these lectures [1].
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998899
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615
Some of the comments here were made in those discussions, but some of the comments on those discussions have not yet been made here.