POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Complex numbers : Re: Complex numbers Server Time
29 Jul 2024 10:23:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Complex numbers  
From: Warp
Date: 8 May 2012 13:23:04
Message: <4fa95677@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> No. Quaternions do not form a field. Neither do the hypercomplex 
> numbers, nor any of the other 4D generalisations.

  The reason is that it's not possible to make multiplication commutative
for them.

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                                                          - Warp


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