Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior

• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re actually very useful: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    (…I think you may have gotten whooshed…)

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    • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hehe, maybe a little, but wanted to share just in case someone didn’t know :3

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      • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I clicked your link, I barely made it out of highschool so I have no idea what any of it means, but I like reading things I shouldn’t understand anyway, sometines it’s so interesting even without understanding.

        So I thank you!

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• codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It gets worse actually. You can define a number system using any power of 2 amount of i-like units in a similar relationship to quaternions using the Cayley-Dickson construction

  Fascinatingly, you lose some property of the algebra at each step. Quaternions aren’t commutative: ABC != CBA. Octonians aren’t associative: (AB)C != A(BC). Once you get into 16 i’s with subscripts, it really gets crazy.

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  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hehe, yeah, the joke was too good :P

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• serenissi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  this isn’t real

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