The general form of this property is

where are the counting numbers and are the Lucas numbers.



The are the basis quaternions.

This connection is suggestive of a biquaternion (complex quaternion) that satisfies the (golden) condition


Let be the basis for the quaternions, and let be complex numbers, then

is a biquaternion. The complex numbers commute with the quaternion basis vectors, and the root of -1 in the complex numbers is distinct from all three of the quaternion basis vectors. The algebra of biquaternions is associative, but not commutative.