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> anything you can accomplish with quaternions were better accomplished with vectors of complex numbers What about octonions? Are they even less useful?
by est 4y ago
> anything you can accomplish with quaternions were better accomplished with vectors of complex numbers
What about octonions? Are they even less useful?
- hanche 4y agoThe octonions aren’t even associative, making them less “natural” and harder to work with. But quaternions are quite useful for working with rotations in three dimensions. To be very technical, the unit imaginary quaternions form a double (universal) cover of the rotation group SO(3).