Re: MATH: Surreal numbers?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Nov 11 1997 - 02:28:06 MST


Steve Witham <sw@tiac.net> writes:

> And what about octonions!?

Yes, they are nice if non-associative. I prefer quaternions.

BTW, how does derivatives work with quaternion-valued functions?

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