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On 25/07/2011 11:12 AM, Henderson wrote:
> Until some enterprising mathematician thinks up something that can be
> added and multiplied, but has no sensible correspondence to any subset
> of any kind of vectors of real numbers ...

They're called "Rings":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_%28mathematics%29