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I'm glad you seem to know what I mean. I love imaginary numbers like the Square Root of -1 or the Square Root of 0. They can only be used like:

nil²=0

i²=-1 j²=-1

And combining them into complex forms like:

(i + j)

(nil + i)

What can I call this general idea of using imagination to determine new number rules and combining them together?

If I call this GA or Clifford Algebra in a math community will it trigger rigor admins to ban me from talking because I'm not using their terms?

I wish we had artistic imaginary math communities for exploring Geometry without rigor turing everything into Semantics. Geometry literally doesn't need semantics if you agree on points, lines, planes ect. Algebra to me should just be simple maps from clifford numbers to examples of intuitive geometry / physics.



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