quaternion
/kwuh-tur-nee-uhn/US // kwəˈtɜr ni ən //UK // (kwəˈtɜːnɪən) //
四元数,四元论,四元组,四元数的
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a group or set of four persons or things.
- : Bookbinding. four gathered sheets folded in two for binding together.
- : Mathematics. an expression of the form a + bi + cj + dk, where a,b,c, and d are real numbers; i2 = j2 = k2 = −1; and ij = −ji = k, jk = −kj = i, and ki = −ik = j.a quantity or operator expressed as the sum of a real number and three complex numbers, equivalent to the quotient of two vectors. The field of quaternions is not commutative under multiplication.
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Examples
Of course, each player also does his best to stop his opponent from forming his quaternion or file of four.
Keep forming threes as long as you can so as to force your opponent to stop the threatened quaternion.
His days are thus described: from dawn to the third hour he copied rapidly, filling a (quaternion) each day.
Even then the captain of the gate was replying to a question from the quaternion.
Should neither player be able to form a quaternion, then the game is drawn.
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