ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Sedenions

Okay, so imagine you have a toy box with different kinds of toys in it. Some toys are balls, some are cars, and some are stuffed animals. The sedenions are like a really big toy box with lots of different types of toys in it, but they're not toys, they're numbers.

Numbers are like little building blocks that we use to do math. We can add, subtract, multiply and divide them to figure out all sorts of things like how much money we have, how fast we're going in a car, or how long it will take to make a cake.

Now, the sedenions are a special kind of number system that has lots of different types of building blocks. There are two main types called real and imaginary numbers. Real numbers are like regular numbers you use in everyday life, like 2 or 7. Imaginary numbers are a little trickier, because they're not real numbers you can count like you wouldn't count a toy snake as a real snake.

In the sedenions, there are even more types of numbers than just real and imaginary. There are also different rules for how you can add, subtract, multiply and divide them. It's like having lots of different toys in the toy box that you can play with, but you have to follow certain rules to make them work together.

So, in summary, the sedenions are a special kind of number system with lots of different types of numbers that follow special rules. It's like having a big toy box full of different kinds of toys that you can use to do math.
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