biggest: Returns the biggest type of a set of onions

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

Description

Returns the biggest type of a set of onions; useful for “promoting” a set of onions to the most general type.

Usage

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Arguments

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Onionic vectors

Details

If any argument passed to biggest() is an octonion, then return the string “octonion”. Failing that, if any argument is a quaternion, return the string “quaternion”, and failing that, return “scalar”.

Value

Character string representing the type

Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Examples

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biggest(O1,rquat(100),1:4)

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