Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cayley-dickson construction

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English

Syllables: cay-ley-dick-son -con-struc-tion
IPA

44

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

7

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A construction that produces a sequence of Cayley-Dickson algebras: algebras over the field of real numbers, each with twice the dimension of the previous one.

Etymology

Named after Arthur Cayley and Leonard Eugene Dickson.

Questions

What does cayley-dickson construction mean?: A construction that produces a sequence of Cayley-Dickson algebras: algebras over the field of real numbers, each with twice the dimension of the previous one.
Where does cayley-dickson construction come from?: Named after Arthur Cayley and Leonard Eugene Dickson.

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