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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00080.] The author gives a criticism to the Mandelbrot's concept of fractal as a set of points having fractional dimension. In his opinion fractals are not fractional dimensions but they are a kinky concept. Hyperspheres are considered as examples of true fractional dimensions. In order to illustrate that each dimension has its own topological characteristics the author refers to the first eight dimensions and their relation with elementary hypernumber arithmetics. Arguments that odd and even dimensions have different topologies are given. The first negadimension as it results from a generalization of Euler's basic theorem on polyhedral nets is discussed. Finally, the author presents some aspects concerning true noninteger dimensions \(D,0<D<1\). Geometrically these are the nodes of certain wave forms.