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I was interested in Wired’s coverage<\/a> of an quaternions. According to the story, a quaternion is an equation used in calculating vectors and other physicsy types of things. They also seem in some weird way to have led to the development of radio. Thing is, Wired doesn’t describe what the equation is or how it works. They don’t describe it at all – not even a very dumbed down version. They only describe the impact.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s all most of their readers are interested in. I found it pretty annoying though. I was about to go google up some information for myself. Then I realized – this is the kind of thing that will probably end up on MetaFilter in a day or two. Whoever posts it is probably going to go dig up a bunch of links to hide the fact that their post is completely lame. So, rather than doing the research myself, I’m going to wait to see what turns up on MetaFilter. I suspect the post itself won’t have very many interesting links, but somebody in the thread will point me towards a remarkable resource for understanding quaternions. Of course this is all just a wild ass guess at this point. It may not show up there, and if it does it may not be formatted in the way I expect, but does anybody want to put 5 bucks down against it happening just the way I describe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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