mastermind@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agowhy not a,b or x,y?lemm.eeimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1654arrow-down142
arrow-up1612arrow-down1imagewhy not a,b or x,y?lemm.eemastermind@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square98fedilink
minus-squaregalilette@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIn fact this goes all the way back to Hamilton when he invented quaternion, in which i,j,k are used as basis vectors (which are generalizations of the imaginary i). Later Gibbs dropped the scalar component and gave us the modern vector.
In fact this goes all the way back to Hamilton when he invented quaternion, in which i,j,k are used as basis vectors (which are generalizations of the imaginary i). Later Gibbs dropped the scalar component and gave us the modern vector.