WTF ?

ben@bpfh.net ben at bpfh.net
Wed Jan 10 16:58:46 GMT 2007


On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:36:14PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:28:55PM +0000, Adrian Howard wrote:
>[...]
>> (I'm pretty sure you missed it. It was certainly in there when I was using
>> it in the late eighties / early nineties. The square root of -1 got you a
>> complex number too :-)
>
>I'll only be impressed if it did octonions as well.

You've really used a non-associative algebra in your work?

Pardon my sceptic face - but this seems a little unlikely to me[1]

Ben
[1] Unless you're secretly Shevek in a rubber mask


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