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Quaternion
noncommutative extension of the real numbers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In mathematics, the quaternion number system extends the complex numbers into four dimensions. They were first described by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843.[1][2] They are often used in computer graphics to compute 3-dimensional rotations.
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