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On The Theory Of Quaternions, Earle David Smith
On The Theory Of Quaternions, Earle David Smith
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Ordered triplets serve to describe space geometrically just as ordered pairs serve to describe the plane. A multiplication can be defined on pairs consistent with the complex numbers. However, as this paper will show, one cannot define a multiplication on triplets which is consistent with the complex numbers.