Measure of convex hulls I'm not an expert of this kind of questions, but I can't give a satisfactory  answer to the following question. 

Pick $x_1\dots x_n \in \mathbb{R}^m$. Is there a  formula for the measure of the convex hull of $x_1\dots x_n$? 

Of course it can be that the convex hull of $x_1\dots x_n$ has measure zero because it is contained in a hyperplane of $\mathbb{R}^m$, but if you ask the  question for the appropriate Hausdorff measure, the question always make sense...
 A: This isn't a complete answer. 
You can assume that the convex hull $S$ has non-empty interior - otherwise restrict to the affine subspace generated by the points and look at the problem there (or declare the volume to be zero). To simplify, I'm going to talk in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Now identify the faces of $S$ (whose vertices must be among the $x_i$'s), and pick an arbitrary point $O$ in space. Then the volume of $S$ is the sum of the volumes of the pyramids with vertex $O$ and base one of the faces, where the volume is counted positively if $O$ is on the same side of the face as $S$ is, and negatively otherwise. Since we know the formula for the volume of a pyramid, $\frac{1}{3}(\mathrm{base} \times \mathrm{height})$, this reduces the problem to finding the area of the faces, which are convex polygons. Similarly, if you were working in $\mathbb{R}^n$, this would reduce the dimension to $n-1$, and you'd repeat the process.
It could be that there's some way to do this without locating the faces, but I don't know if that's the case.
