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 | | What he didn't realize was that the quaternions form a group ring [i.e., the 1,i,j,k elements and their negatives form a group of order eight (the quaternion group, of course), and elements of the form 1x+iy+jz+kw, with x,y,z,w real, form a ring]. |
 | | The fact that we exclusively use the quaternion case (vector analysis) in science and engineering apparently stems from the fact that it was discovered first and the others were not examined for potential application when they were eventually uncovered. |
 | | All of the other conditions for a ring are satisfied, as well; see [Davenport(3), 1991] for details. |
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