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Routon

name

Etymology

Blend of route + quaternion. Named after Massachusetts Route 128.

  1. derived from quaterniō
  2. inherited from quaterniǒun
  3. compounded as routon — “route + quaternion”

Definitions

  1. A surname.

  2. A 128-dimensional hypercomplex number.

    • For completeness’ sake, we name the 2⁷-ions too, dubbing them Routons, after that legendary source of high-tech innovativeness, Route 128 of the “Massachusetts Miracle” that paralleled Silicon Valley’s on the “Left Coast” of this country.
    • 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 Routon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA