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Implement sqrt() for QuaternionAlgebraElement #3709

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sagetrac-epotash mannequin opened this issue Jul 23, 2008 · 1 comment
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Implement sqrt() for QuaternionAlgebraElement #3709

sagetrac-epotash mannequin opened this issue Jul 23, 2008 · 1 comment

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sagetrac-epotash mannequin commented Jul 23, 2008

This method currently does not exist, but it should. For an outline of an algorithm see: http://www.mathreference.com/ring-q,sqr.html

The only issue is that, as far as I know, there is no standard for which square root to take like there is over C or R.

Component: algebra

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/3709

@sagetrac-mabshoff sagetrac-mabshoff mannequin changed the title QuaternionAlgebraElement.sqrt() Implement sqrt() for QuaternionAlgebraElement Jul 23, 2008
@sagetrac-mabshoff sagetrac-mabshoff mannequin added this to the sage-3.1.1 milestone Jul 23, 2008
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sagetrac-fwclarke mannequin commented Dec 18, 2011

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In the quaternions there are infinitely many square-roots of -1: (xi + yj + zk)2 = -1 for any real numbers x, y, z such that x2 + y2 + z2 = 1.  I don't know how to prefer one of these.

@jdemeyer jdemeyer modified the milestones: sage-5.11, sage-5.12 Aug 13, 2013
@sagetrac-vbraun-spam sagetrac-vbraun-spam mannequin modified the milestones: sage-6.1, sage-6.2 Jan 30, 2014
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