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UwU brat mathematician behavior (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It gets worse actually. You can define a number system using any power of 2 amount of i-like units in a similar relationship to quaternions using the Cayley-Dickson construction

Fascinatingly, you lose some property of the algebra at each step. Quaternions aren't commutative: ABC != CBA. Octonians aren't associative: (AB)C != A(BC). Once you get into 16 i's with subscripts, it really gets crazy.

(Also, I just got the joke. Damnit @[email protected] your serious answer threw me off!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hehe, yeah, the joke was too good :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Maybe a bit too complex for its own good.