1<html> 2<head> 3<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 4<title>Quaternion Value Operations</title> 5<link rel="stylesheet" href="../math.css" type="text/css"> 6<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"> 7<link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="Math Toolkit 2.12.0"> 8<link rel="up" href="../quaternions.html" title="Chapter 16. 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57 </p> 58<p> 59 This return the sup norm (the greatest among <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">abs</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">q</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">R_component_1</span><span class="special">())...</span><span class="identifier">abs</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">q</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">R_component_4</span><span class="special">()))</span></code> of the quaternion. 60 </p> 61<h5> 62<a name="math_toolkit.value_op.h3"></a> 63 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.value_op.l1"></a></span><a class="link" href="value_op.html#math_toolkit.value_op.l1">l1</a> 64 </h5> 65<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">typename</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">l1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">quaternion</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="special">&</span> <span class="identifier">q</span><span class="special">);</span> 66</pre> 67<p> 68 This return the l1 norm <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">abs</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">q</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">R_component_1</span><span class="special">())+...+</span><span class="identifier">abs</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">q</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">R_component_4</span><span class="special">()))</span></code> of the quaternion. 69 </p> 70<h5> 71<a name="math_toolkit.value_op.h4"></a> 72 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.value_op.abs"></a></span><a class="link" href="value_op.html#math_toolkit.value_op.abs">abs</a> 73 </h5> 74<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">typename</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">abs</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">quaternion</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="special">&</span> <span class="identifier">q</span><span class="special">);</span> 75</pre> 76<p> 77 This return the magnitude (Euclidean norm) of the quaternion. 78 </p> 79<h5> 80<a name="math_toolkit.value_op.h5"></a> 81 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.value_op.norm"></a></span><a class="link" href="value_op.html#math_toolkit.value_op.norm">norm</a> 82 </h5> 83<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">typename</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">norm</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">quaternion</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="special">&</span> <span class="identifier">q</span><span class="special">);</span> 84</pre> 85<p> 86 This return the (Cayley) norm of the quaternion. The term "norm" 87 might be confusing, as most people associate it with the Euclidian norm (and 88 quadratic functionals). For this version of (the mathematical objects known 89 as) quaternions, the Euclidean norm (also known as magnitude) is the square 90 root of the Cayley norm. 91 </p> 92</div> 93<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 94<td align="left"></td> 95<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2006-2019 Nikhar 96 Agrawal, Anton Bikineev, Paul A. Bristow, Marco Guazzone, Christopher Kormanyos, 97 Hubert Holin, Bruno Lalande, John Maddock, Jeremy Murphy, Matthew Pulver, Johan 98 Råde, Gautam Sewani, Benjamin Sobotta, Nicholas Thompson, Thijs van den Berg, 99 Daryle Walker and Xiaogang Zhang<p> 100 Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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