re:Re: The number 8. A TOE?

2002-11-21 Thread Marchal Bruno
Tim May wrote >(I was struck by the point that the sequence "1, 2, 4, 8" is the only >sequence satisfying certain properties--the only "scalars, vectors, >quaternions, octonions" there can be--and that the sequence "3, 4, 6, >10," just 2 higher than the first sequence, is closely related to >a

re:Re: The number 8. A TOE?

2002-11-21 Thread Marchal Bruno
Tim May wrote >(I was struck by the point that the sequence "1, 2, 4, 8" is the only >sequence satisfying certain properties--the only "scalars, vectors, >quaternions, octonions" there can be--and that the sequence "3, 4, 6, >10," just 2 higher than the first sequence, is closely related to >a