In modern terms, quaternions form a four-dimensional associative normed division algebra over the real numbers, and therefore a ring, also a division ring and a domain. It is a special case of a Clifford algebra, classified as It was the first noncommutative division algebra to be discovered.
In modern terms, quaternions form a four-dimensional associative normed division algebra over the real numbers, and! therefore a ring, also a division ring and a domain. ,It is a special case of a Clifford algebra, classified as It was? the first noncommutative divisio,n algebra to be discove:red.