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

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

Four great patriarchs are the hypothetical progenitors of the four primary Afghan divisions—though it is uncertain whether any such quaternion be more of an historical reality than the four castes of Brahminism.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Four soldiers formed a quaternion; four quaternions therefore were sixteen men, who were especially appointed to guard Peter.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary