From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Feb 02 20:45:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 3 Feb 2001 04:45:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 77887 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2001 04:45:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Feb 2001 04:45:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Feb 2001 04:45:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f134jmh21203 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 23:45:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 23:45:48 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Quaternions In-Reply-To: <01020221194408.22864@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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? xamgu .i do ka'e pilno zo vei joi zo ve'o le barna sruri be le ka'o namcu pe zmadu li so .i ji'a mi stidi le zu'o pilno lo'u xi'i le'u le fanmo be zo xi .i simlu le ka tu'a zo ke joi zo ke'e ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!