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    In mathematics, the quaternion number system extends the complex numbers. Quaternions were first described by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton...
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  • Unit quaternions, known as versors, provide a convenient mathematical notation for representing spatial orientations and rotations of elements in three...
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    In group theory, the quaternion group Q8 (sometimes just denoted by Q) is a non-abelian group of order eight, isomorphic to the eight-element subset {...
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  • angles and unit quaternions. This article explains how to convert between the two representations. Actually this simple use of "quaternions" was first presented...
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    The Quaternion Eagle (German: Quaternionenadler; Italian: Aquila Quaternione), also known as the Imperial Quaternion Eagle (German: Quaternionen-Reichsadler)...
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  • In mathematics, a Hurwitz quaternion (or Hurwitz integer) is a quaternion whose components are either all integers or all half-integers (halves of odd...
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  • quaternion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The quaternions form a number system that extends the complex numbers. Quaternion rotation Quaternion group...
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    In mathematics, quaternions are a non-commutative number system that extends the complex numbers. Quaternions and their applications to rotations were...
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  • In abstract algebra, the algebra of hyperbolic quaternions is a nonassociative algebra over the real numbers with elements of the form q = a + b i + c...
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  • representing a rotation as numbers in a computer, some people prefer the quaternion representation or the axis+angle representation, because they avoid the...
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