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Multiplication of quaternions (chapter 3) #19

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jcremona opened this issue Aug 9, 2020 · 2 comments
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Multiplication of quaternions (chapter 3) #19

jcremona opened this issue Aug 9, 2020 · 2 comments

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@jcremona
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jcremona commented Aug 9, 2020

I really appreciate this book, great work!
In Section 3.4.1 Quaternion Operations, multiplication between two quaternions is defined. A more concise form is presented. According to the text, this form uses inner and outer product. In my opinion, this is a mistake. It is not the outer product but the cross product. Outer product is a vector operation whose result is a matrix. On the other hand, Cross product gives a vector as a result (null vector when both vectors are parallel).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product

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Thanks @jremona, I'll correct it in a few days.

@jcremona
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Hhmm, actually, after reading the chapter again, I realized that this operation is presented as "Outer product" in the whole chapter. Thanks for your reply.

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