Have you ever heard of a anything in mathematics being characterized as being pathological.

In mathematics, quaternions are a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. They were first described by the Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. At first, quaternions were regarded as pathological because they disobeyed the commutative law ab = ba. Although they have been superseded in most applications by vectors and matrices, they still find uses in both theoretical and applied mathematics, in particular for calculations involving three-dimensional rotations, such as in 3D computer graphics.

I don’t know about you but I hate it when my numbers set goes all pathological on me. And whats with it ignoring the commutative property. I don’t care if I’m in quaternionland, 3 x 4 equals 4 x 3. Biatch.

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