voudon

English

Etymology 1

See voodoo.

Noun

voudon (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of voodoo

Etymology 2

Blend of voudou +‎ quaternion. Named after the 256 Ifá divination signs in West African voodoo.

Noun

voudon (plural voudons)

1. (mathematics) A 256-dimensional hypercomplex number.
   • 2002, Robert P. C. de Marrais, “Flying Higher Than a Box-Kite: Kite-Chain Middens, Sand Mandalas, and Zero-Divisor Patterns in the 2ⁿ-ions Beyond the Sedenions”, in arXiv‎^[1], →DOI, page 7:

     Following the convention adopted by Tony Smith, who has called the 2⁸-ions Voudons after the 256 deities of the Ifa pantheon of Voodoo or Voudon

   • 2022, Zlatka Valkova-Jarvis, Vladimir Poulkov, Viktor Stoynov, Dimitriya Mihaylova, Georgi Iliev, “A Method for the Design of Bicomplex Orthogonal DSP Algorithms for Applications in Intelligent Radio Access Networks”, in Symmetry, volume 14, number 3, MDPI AG, →DOI, →ISSN:

     According to the logic of doubling the dimensions on which Cayley–Dickson algebra is built, after quaternions the so-called 8D octonions ($\mathbb {O}$—Octonions) can be obtained, followed by 16D sedenions, 32D pathions, 64D chingons, 128D routons, and 256D voudons.

   • 2023, Melanie Swan, Renato P. dos Santos, “Quantum Intelligence: Responsible Human-AI Entities”, in AAAI 2023 Spring Symposia, Socially Responsible AI for Wellbeing, March 27–29, 2023, USA, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, →DOI:

     There is no theoretical limit to multispace dimensional numbering as there are definitions for octonion (8D), sedenion (16D), pathion (32D), chingon (64D), routon (128D), and voudon (256D) numbered space.

Synonyms

• ducentiquinquagintasexion

See also

• (mathematics):
  • octonion
  • sedenion
  • trigintaduonion
  • pathion
  • chingon
  • routon

Anagrams

• vodoun