quaternion
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If you derive a quaternion multiplication table from the fundamental formula Hamilton carved into Broome Bridge, you’ll find that ij = k, but ji = -k.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016
Indeed, mere months after Hamilton’s quaternion brain wave, his friend John T. Graves debuted “octaves,” a kind of double quaternion now called octonions.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016
There is no fear of the quaternion of soldiers waking, or of there not being time to do all.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander
A quaternion of pieces called “The Nights” will supply us perhaps with our best single extract, at once practicable and characteristic.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
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