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Not a recipe ingredient...

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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

There’s a suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions".


https://getpocket.com/explore/...e-the-laws-of-nature


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I seriously thought this was going to be something from The Onion. Maybe about octomom....
 
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Last time I read about something like this, it was the quarternions (4-tuple maths). The matheticians seem to have better luck with 4-tuple than 3-tuple, and skip over 5/6/7-tuple to develop the 8-tuple stuff (octonions). Shrug


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Clearly, we were not meant to use our thumbs when counting. Or the thumb was supposed to be the "cursor".


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Originally posted by Axtremus:
Last time I read about something like this, it was the quarternions (4-tuple maths). The matheticians seem to have better luck with 4-tuple than 3-tuple, and skip over 5/6/7-tuple to develop the 8-tuple stuff (octonions). Shrug


From my rudimentary understanding, it's powers of two. It's based on pairs.
 
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