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No idea why OP found it interesting, but this really caught my eye:

“Given the properties of bilinearity, orthogonality and magnitude, a nonzero cross product exists only in three and seven dimensions.”



exactly this! these marvellous rarities are what makes mathematics so divinely interesting.

why only 3 and 7? what's the relationship with quaternions and octonions?

in a similar vein,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional_object




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