Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: The splendor of true Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:22:54 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:22:55 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ad095adaf9d64c9163b0578a2211f0c8"; logging-data="1345766"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18cCJp6m43CCBRm9f28NPkyh2VrAdusUPU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:IzdOkUYJ+k0LBn8znLNfqhzidc0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US On 3/10/2025 2:19 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: > On 3/10/2025 1:33 AM, efji wrote: >> Le 10/03/2025 à 03:03, Chris M. Thomasson a écrit : >> >>> >>> Indeed. Sorry for the stupid question, but the following parts of >>> RH's description: >>> >>> Z=aa'+bb'+i(ab'+a'b) and not Z=aa'-bb'+i(ab'+a'b). >>> >>> Means a = x component, b = y component, right? ;^o >> >> Well... >> In his disturbed mind, (a,b) = a-b on the x axis :) >> >> But forget the pathetic egotic and just try a+jb=(a,b) un R^2 with the >> rule (a+ib)*(a'+jb') = aa'+bb'+j(ab'+a'b) which is the rule on the >> split-complex set, (thus j^2=1). >> > > Here is what I got for my little test: > > https://i.ibb.co/WWwhqh9K/image.png > > Oh how fun! The coloring on the minimum distance makes it a bit better: https://i.ibb.co/chZf896G/image.png ;^D