Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
biquaternion , 2.
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- noun mathematics A
nonassociative extension of aquaternion .
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Examples
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Not sure if you need to vibrate the octonion, it can make a nice fermion representation space just sitting there.
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Put down your colander and pasta, and pick up this vibrating octonion.
ruzuzu commented on the word octonion
“As numbers go, the familiar real numbers — those found on the number line, like 1, π and -83.777 — just get things started. Real numbers can be paired up in a particular way to form “complex numbers,” first studied in 16th-century Italy, that behave like coordinates on a 2-D plane. Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing is like translating and rotating positions around the plane. Complex numbers, suitably paired, form 4-D “quaternions,” discovered in 1843 by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, who on the spot ecstatically chiseled the formula into Dublin’s Broome Bridge. John Graves, a lawyer friend of Hamilton’s, subsequently showed that pairs of quaternions make octonions: numbers that define coordinates in an abstract 8-D space.”
— “The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature” (https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/)
July 23, 2018
qms commented on the word octonion
You mean it’s not an eight-sided onion?
July 24, 2018