Pure and unit quaternions

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For these imaginary units, the following rules hold:

$\begin{align} i^2 &= j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1 \\ ij &= -ji = k \\ jk &= -kj = i \\ ki &= -ik = j \end{align}$