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voudon

noun

Etymology

Blend of voudou + quaternion. Named after the 256 Ifá divination signs in West African voodoo.

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

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of voodoo.

  2. A 256-dimensional hypercomplex number.

    • Following the convention adopted by Tony Smith, who has called the 2⁸-ions Voudons after the 256 deities of the Ifa pantheon of Voodoo or Voudon
    • 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 voudon. 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