[julia-users] Re: Trivia question: Quaternions (ℍ), Octonions (𝕆), Sedenions (𝕊) etc. numbers are not supported, but are the in libraries or needed? And complex, vs. in others, say MATLAB..

[Andreas Lobinger]

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> that is the right thing. I wander what MATLAB does, since all numbers(?) 
> are stored as complex. 0im special cased?
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yes. Only real part is compared, if you need abs(a) > abs(b) or similar.