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[–] galilette@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In fact this goes all the way back to Hamilton when he invented quaternion, in which i,j,k are used as basis vectors (which are generalizations of the imaginary i). Later Gibbs dropped the scalar component and gave us the modern vector.