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Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Fantastic Quaternions - Numberphile" video.
Peeling quaternions can apparently do that to you.
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Ah, but they didn’t specify the rotation axis, did they? That meant they were only thinking in 2 dimensions.
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But what if each component of the quaternion was not a real number, but a complex number? In other words, introduce a second level of complexification, if you like, where you could have real/complex/quaternion/etc at each level, independently. What properties would the resulting numbers have? And then, of course, what happens if you have 3 or more levels?
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