Don't Even Talk About Sedenions...

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Don't Even Talk About Sedenions...

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Welcome to the mathematical horror show! 🧪

Real numbers? Perfectly behaved children with all their nice properties. Complex numbers lose ordering but still play well together. Then come quaternions, the rebellious teenagers of mathematics who refuse to commute (i×j≠j×i).

But octonions? Those cosmic horrors abandon ALL mathematical niceties! They're the mathematical equivalent of unleashing chaos gremlins into your equations. No wonder mathematicians start looking traumatized!

And if you think that's bad... don't even MENTION sedenions to a mathematician unless you want to see a grown adult curl into fetal position and whimper about "zero divisors" and "non-associativity." Pure nightmare fuel for number theorists!

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