hexadecanion

English

Etymology

Blend of hexadeca- +‎ quaternion, from Ancient Greek ἑκκαίδεκα (hekkaídeka, “sixteen”).

Noun

hexadecanion (plural hexadecanions)

  1. An alternative name for a sedenion, a 16-dimensional hypercomplex number or a 16-dimensional number constructed by doubling the quaternion.
    • 2013 March, Salomon S Mizrahi and Marcos C de Oliveira, “Quaternions, hexadecanions and the Schur complement in quantum mechanics”, in Physica Scripta‎[1]:
      We extend this very concept to the larger mathematical object, which generalizes the quaternion, the hexadecanion, which we shall define and use.
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