On: Von Neumann's Elephant

[playingalong]

Thinking in software dev terms. It says four parameters and then the solution provided in the Wiki starts with "let's use complex numbers" and lands with what the normies call 8 numbers.

I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four.

[azornathogron → playingalong]

> I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four.

Yes, those are called octonions.

Though I don't know if anyone has tried to use one to draw an elephant.

[olddustytrail → azornathogron]

Surely if you're using octonions you have to draw a....squid! Or possibly some other cephalopod.