The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἑκκαίδεκα“sixteen”
- English todayhexadecanion
Blend of hexadeca- + quaternion, from Ancient Greek ἑκκαίδεκα (hekkaídeka, “sixteen”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hexadecanion
Today it means: An alternative name for a sedenion, a 16-dimensional hypercomplex number or a 16-dimensional number constructed by doubling the quaternion. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἑκκαίδεκα