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lanstin
2333 days ago
You can't get the associative property in higher dimensions. There is something called octonions (which is not associative but has some similar tho weaker properties)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octonion
There is a sequence of such structures, but after the Octonions you get non-zero numbers that multiply to zero:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Dickson_constru...