Many students find quaternion arithmetic unintuitive because it has non-commutative multiplication.
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Quaternion
//kwɑˈtɜɹniɑn//
Synonyms for "quaternion" (21 found)
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17 translations across 16 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- quaternió noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Czech
1 entries- kvaternion noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Dutch
1 entries- quaternion noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Finnish
1 entries- kvaternio noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
French
1 entries- quaternion noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
German
1 entries- Quaternion noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Greek
2 entries- τετράνιο noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
- τετραδόνιο noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Hindi
1 entries- चतुष्टयी noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Icelandic
1 entries- fertala noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Italian
1 entries- quaternione noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Japanese
1 entries- 四元数 noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Latin
1 entries- quaternio noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Polish
1 entries- kwaternion noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Portuguese
1 entries- quaternião noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Russian
1 entries- кватернион noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
Spanish
1 entries- cuaternión noun (a four-dimensional hypercomplex number)
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In quaternion arithmetic, there are more than two distinct square roots of -1.
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Then wer the dayes of unlevended breed, and when he had caught hym, he put him in preson, and delyvered hym to iiij. quaternions off soudiers to be kepte, entendynge after ester to brynge hym forth to the people.
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This quaternion of revilers has traduced Origen, but not on the same grounds, one having found one cause of accusation against him, and another another; and thus each has demonstrated that what he has taken no objection to, he has fully accepted.
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