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They have been superseded in many applications by vectors and matrices .

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Quaternions

Quaternions. Hamilton conceived them as extended complex numbers One real portion ( s ) and three imaginary portions ( ai,bj,ck ) s + ai + bj + ck s is a purely real scaler a,b,c are real i 2 = j 2 = k 2 = -1 ij = k = -ji s 2 + a 2 + b 2 + c 2 = 1

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