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.