Cardinal Operations
The two Cardinal operations in quaternion notation are geometric multiplication and geometric division and can be written:
- ÷, ×
It is not required to learn the following more advanced terms in order to use division and multiplication.
Division is a kind of analysis called cardinal analysis. Multiplication is a kind of synthesis called cardinal synthesis
Read more about this topic: Classical Hamiltonian Quaternions, Four Operations
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