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::Good grief, what are you waiting for? This bizarre article is in dire need of cleaning up. Nearly all of it is irrelevant, rambling, incoherent, confusing and frustrating. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/134.174.9.30|134.174.9.30]] ([[User talk:134.174.9.30|talk]]) 17:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->
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: Done. What this (severely) reduced version now needs are more specifics about applications, e.g., orbital mechanics. I don't have the details, but I know NASA has done a lot along those lines. I'll try to find someone to ask, or maybe a public ___domain report.
: Incidentally, parts of the excised version tracked closely in content and order to [[Roger Penrose]]'s section on visualizing quaternions in ''The Road to Reality''. In particular, Penrose goes through much the same discussion of flipping a book around. Such visualization topics may have enough meat to merit a separate Wikipedia article (not here!). Frankly, though, I'd rather add in a reference at an appropriate spot to the chapter in Penrose's book, which does a pretty decent job of describing the visualization aspects of quaternions. (That said, all such attempts that I've seen, including Penrose's, are not for the visually faint of heart...)
: [[User:Terry Bollinger|Terry Bollinger]] 04:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
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