Timeline for Can dual numbers be extended to a non-power of 2 dimension?
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 7:02 | answer | added | Douglas Molin | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 6:53 | comment | added | Berci | Well, in every step after the complex numbers, we are losing a property. Quaternions are not commutative, Octonions are neither associative, so actually not all $2$-powers give reasonable division algebra. The dual numbers, however, do generalize to arbitrary dimensions.. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 6:33 | history | asked | Nirvana | CC BY-SA 4.0 |