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Re:The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics by sannee on Saturday July 21, 2018 @02:20AM (#17580948)
Octonions are to quaternions as are quaternions to complex numbers (and complex numbers to reals). This is called "Cayley construction" iirc.
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Re:The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics by danbruc on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:29AM (#17581256)
Sure, but the structure the article is about is the tensor product of the four algebras which is an algebra with 64 real dimensions.
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