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by sebastos 3244 days ago
> Redundant information. The latter follows from the former.

It's a blog post, not a paper. If I give you a brand new operator ^ that takes an arbitrary object a and another object b and tell you that it has anti-commutativity, it's not a given that a ^ a = 0. So it's useful to highlight that this IS the case when a and b are the vectors of GA, for intuition's sake. a = -a iff a is the zero vector. What if our objects are rotations or something though? R = -R does not imply R = the zero rotation.

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^ is the multiplication operator of an algebra, though.