Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of a number of imaginaries or complex quantities. Thus, a quantity ai +
bj + etc., where a, b, etc., are complex scalars, while i, j, etc., are peculiar units, having their proper multiplication-table, is a hypercomplex quantity.
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- adjective mathematics Describing any of several types of higher
dimensional numbers having some characteristics ofcomplex numbers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This means that if we represent a rotation around the vertical by some "hypercomplex" number
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This means that if we represent a rotation around the vertical by some "hypercomplex" number
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Many are hypercomplex and rely on rare ingredients that few of us would have any luck finding -- but again, this is par for the course in the world of culinary cocktails.
Women Behind Bars 2009
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If hypercomplex systems were predictable, NASA would have foolproof space shuttles --- because they are a lot simpler than the climate.
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Plants and trees are hypercomplex, like the climate.
Pathological Science... GayandRight 2007
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Plants and trees are hypercomplex, like the climate.
Archive 2007-11-01 GayandRight 2007
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If hypercomplex systems were predictable, NASA would have foolproof space shuttles — because they are a lot simpler than the climate.
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A quaternion is, in fact, a generalized or hypercomplex number ...
Chapter 4 1990
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"You know the formalism of your mathematics which defines a particle and converts it into an antiparticle simply by rotating the hypercomplex system of co-ordinates?"
The Ghosts of Gol Mahr, Kurt 1976
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And perhaps he had seen, too, that the time Ruiz%Sanchez had devoted to the elaborate, capriciously hypercomplex case of conscience in the Joyce novel had been time wasted; there was a much simpler case, one of the classical situations, which applied if Ruiz%Sanchez could only see it.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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