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
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The play of chances which brings up a ternion or a quaternion is nothing compared to what has been required to prevent the combination of which I am reaping the fruits from being disturbed.
From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan
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 Lady Mary Ross
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