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octonion

noun
/ɒkˈtəʊ.ni.ən/UK/ɑkˈtoʊ.ni.ən/US

Etymology

Blend of Latin octō (“eight”) + quaternion.

  1. derived from quaterniō
  2. inherited from quaterniǒun
  3. compounded as octonion — “la:octō + quaternion”

Definitions

  1. An 8-dimensional nonassociative extension of a quaternion with a real part and 7…

    An 8-dimensional nonassociative extension of a quaternion with a real part and 7 imaginary parts (each a real multiple of a distinct square root of −1).

    • There is no theoretical limit to multispace dimensional numbering as there are definitions for octonion (8D), sedenion (16D), pathion (32D), chingon (64D), routon (128D), and voudon (256D) numbered space.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for octonion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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