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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{axiom}
\begin{document}
\title{\$SPAD/src/input quat.input}
\author{The Axiom Team}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\end{abstract}
\eject
\tableofcontents
\eject
\section{License}
<<license>>=
--Copyright The Numerical Algorithms Group Limited 1991.
@
<<*>>=
<<license>>
-- This file demonstrates some operations with quaternions.
)clear all
-- The basic function for creating quaternions is "quatern". This is
-- a quaternion over the rational numbers.
q := quatern(2/11,-8,3/4,1)
-- The four arguments are the real part, the i imaginary part, the
-- j imaginary part and the k imaginary part, respectively. These are
-- extracted with the following functions.
real q
imagI q
imagJ q
imagK q
-- Because q is over the rationals (and nonzero), you can invert it ...
inv q
-- in addition to the normal arithmetic (ring) operations.
q**6
r := quatern(-2,3,23/9,-89)
q + r
q - r
-- In general, multiplication is not commutative.
q * r
r * q
-- There are no predefined constants for the imaginary i, j and k but
-- you can easily define them.
i := quatern(0,1,0,0)
j := quatern(0,0,1,0)
k := quatern(0,0,0,1)
i*i
j*j
k*k
i*j
j*k
k*i
q * i
-- The norm is the quaternion times its conjugate
norm q
conjugate q
q * %
@
\eject
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{1} nothing
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
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