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

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 Alcott, Amos Bronson

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