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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Quaternions are the closest you'll ever get to lovecraftian horror in real life.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's so scary about hypercomplex numbers exactly?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's start with how their equation was originally carved into a stone bridge by a crazy mathematician in a fit of madness.

[–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowing that no matter how many times you read the theorem, there's no fucking you'll memorize it for the exam. Oh, and also there are at least 20 of them, and you don't know which one they are going to ask.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, well, I'm just a bit dumb, so for me it's not different from many other things. While the general idea is quite easy to remember.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

It's very Lovecraftian that you saying this only makes me want to learn about them even more