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Re:How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers by xyzzyz on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:22PM (#30296933)
You can with n=4, you get quaternions. These are not commutative, but that’s really not too bad.
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Re:How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers by hgomersall on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:04AM (#30298470)
You can for any positive n with geometric algebra (which encompasses the complex and quaternion algebras, the latter being much easier to understand in GA).
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