If X=3 cm, Y=5 cm, Z=3 cm, W=5 cm, and V=2, what is the volume of the object?
0 if the segments lie in a straight line.
450, if they are the lengths of the mutually orthogonal edges of a 5-dimensional hypercube.
Things will vary, depending on whether you are describing a twisted cube, a prism, a pyramid, or an ellipsoid.