Subject: Quaternions

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:11:48 -0500

I propose the following notation for quaternions:

pa = ka'oxino = 1
ka'o = ka'oxipa = i
ka'oxire = j
ka'oxici = k

Thus voka'omuka'oxiciso = 4+5i+9k.
But if someone for some other reason wanted to subscript ka'o with a number
greater than 9, we'd run into trouble. (The most I can imagine subscripting
ka'o with is 7 for octonions.) Another way to say it would be:

pa = 1
ka'opa = i
ka'oka'opa = j
ka'oka'oka'opa = k

so 4+5i+9k would be voka'omuka'oka'oso.

Comments?

phma