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Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Sat Nov 3 15:04:04 CDT 2007


Robin sez:

> If nothing else, Quaternions are central to the development 
> of electronics and 
> nuclear physics and by extension the military-industrial 
> complex...

Huh? By the time either "electronics" (as distinct from electrical power
technologies) or nuclear physics was underway, the ascendancy of vectors
over quaternions was  a fait accompli. No way q's were "central"...




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