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It doesn't stop, but as you said, the next step (sedenions), and all steps after that have non-trivial zero divisors and aren't division algebras.
by leereeves 6y ago
It doesn't stop, but as you said, the next step (sedenions), and all steps after that have non-trivial zero divisors and aren't division algebras.
- gspr 6y agoExactly. This is what I was hinting at when critical at people who say complex numbers are "just 2d reals with fancy multiplication". It's true, of course, but it makes it seem as if the 2 in "2d" is unimportant/arbitrary.