/sci/ - Science & Math

>people who use the word "scholar" unironically

>>11281340
>>11281337
"no"

>>11241697
>>11241692
>only the middle east has sand

>>11155748
>there's some possible exception in some particular species of fish somewhere
OF COURSE THIS INVALIDATES THE HYPOTHESIS THAT BOYS HAVE A PENIS, AND GIRLS HAVE A VAGINA

>>10944247
>>10944363
The original reason Hamilton came up with quaternions was by the reasoning:
>if you consider the real numbers to have "zero generators"
>then the complex numbers have a single generator, i
>so can I make a similar, nice system using two generators??
He says as much in a letter to his son (easily findable through google). He spent years or decades on this problem.

The answer, it turns out, was no. You actually need three generators, and that's what Hamilton got when he invented the quaternions (or more specifically the "real quaternions"). After finding the quaternions, Hamilton devoted the rest of his life to finding applications, and they are now used in physics, in (some styles of) 3D computer graphics, and other places I don't know much about. Obviously Hamilton was insane, but he wasn't wrong.

>>10353835
>"no data" means everything A-OK

>>10065162
Integer overflow. 0-1 = maximum natural number.