Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
HYPERCOMPLEX
Etymology
Adjective
hypercomplex (not comparable)
(mathematics) Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
Noun
hypercomplex (plural hypercomplexes)
(math) A hypercomplex number.
Source: Wiktionary
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