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UwU brat mathematician behavior (mander.xyz)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I clicked your link, I barely made it out of highschool so I have no idea what any of it means, but I like reading things I shouldn't understand anyway, sometines it's so interesting even without understanding.

So I thank you!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Quaternions are the closest we get to lovecraftian horror in real life.

    Four dimensional and mostly imaginary, they were carved into a stone bridge by a crazy mathematician in a fit of madness, Lord Kelvin called them "unmixed evil", and the Mad Hatter from Alice may have been inspired by them.

    Also they have been a curiosity at best for a long time, despite the efforts of a secret Quaternion Society, but they suddenly blew up in usefulness in modern times as they happen to be an easy and fast way for computers to describe rotations in 3D space, so they're everywhere.

    Yeah, lovecraftian as shit.

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