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From: sonnens@mprvaxa.UUCP (Dan Sonnenschein)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: N-dimensional numbers?
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Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 11:04:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 23 11:04:13 1984
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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