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[โ€“] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oops my bad, it's been a while. I thought the Hamiltonian used quaternions, but I guess that's just complex numbers.

[โ€“] linja@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The Hamiltonian using Hamilton's numbers? Now I think about it it is a bit silly that two entirely separate yet highly propinquitous concepts have such similar names. Physics really went downhill once humans started writing it down.