Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mprvaxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!mprvaxa!sonnens From: sonnens@mprvaxa.UUCP (Dan Sonnenschein) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: N-dimensional numbers? Message-ID: <474@mprvaxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 11:04:13 EST Article-I.D.: mprvaxa.474 Posted: Thu Feb 23 11:04:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 01:19:53 EST Organization: Microtel Pacific Research, Burnaby BC Lines: 5 There are also "8-dimensional" numbers called Cayley numbers, after the prominent 19th-century mathematician Arthur Cayley. This number system is non-associative as well as non-commutative. Dan Sonnenschein, ...uw-beaver!ubc-vision!mprvaxa!sonnens