Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior

• pticrix@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This can’t be real

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  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      (…I think you may have gotten whooshed…)

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      • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • serenissi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    this isn’t real

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