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by peter_d_sherman·7y ago·view on hn ↗
Excerpt: "It is strange because multiplying two vectors together gives the sum of two different things: a scalar and a bivector. However this is similar to how a complex number is the sum of a scalar and an "imaginary" number, so you might be used to it already. Here the bivector part corresponds to the "imaginary" part of the complex number. Except it is not "imaginary," it’s just a bivector, which we have a concrete picture of!"