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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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But isn't it fascinating that NASA used theoretical math that didn't have an intended use by the mathmaticians that developed it years ago, but it ended up working well with orbital entry calculations?
There's a lot of theoretical math that ends up being very real.
Quaternions? They were used as intended - to represent rotation.