quaternion
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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
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
The multitudinous philosophies may thus be reduced to a single quaternion, and the reputed inaugurator of a new philosophy is like to be a charlatan.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
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 Alexander Maclaren
Every pulse pushes nature's quaternion along life's currents recreating us afresh; the morn feeding the morn, Memnon's music issuing from every stop, as if the Orient itself had sung.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
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