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Dare I mention hypercomplex numbers?

The first ones you come across are quaternions, represented by set H. Something I learned a few years ago, in set C there are two solutions to x^2+1=0, but in set H the set of solutions forms a Lie group, or basically an infinite number of solutions.




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