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2005 Jul 29
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octonions
...cts.
At this stage, I'm polling for ideas on overall structure.
Would a package be the best way forward? Or
writing an equivalent of complex.c? Or is there
another approach that would be better? The
basic multiplication table is easily implemented in C,
and I now have an (untested) R function OctonionProduct(. , .)
that multiplies two octonions; but I
am struggling to see how to make this play nicely with R: it's not
obvious how to make octonion matrices multiply as they should,
in the same way that (eg) complex matrices do.
Perhaps we could define "*" and "/" appropriately fo...