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In [[mathematics]], the '''voudon''' [[number system]] extends the [[complex number]]s into 256 dimensions. The voudons are also called '''256-ions''' or '''ducentiquinquagintasexions'''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Visualization of the Cayley-Dickson Hypercomplex Numbers Up to the Chingons (64D) | first=Michael | last=Carter | website=MaplePrimes | date=2011-08-19 | url=https://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/124913-Visualization-Of-The-CayleyDickson | access-date=2024-10-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Application Center | website=Maplesoft | date=2010-01-18 | url=https://www.maplesoft.com/applications/Preview.aspx?id=35196 | access-date=2024-10-08}}</ref> The number system was named by American mathematician Frank "Tony" Dodd Smith Jr. (also known as "Tony Smith") as a reference to the 256 signs of the Ifá divination system (used in the Vodun or [[Voodoo]] religion of West Africa). It is represented using the symbol <math>\mathbb V</math>.<ref name=Box-Kite>{{cite web | last=de Marrais | first=Robert P. C. | title=Flying Higher Than a Box-Kite: Kite-Chain Middens, Sand Mandalas, and Zero-Divisor Patterns in the 2<sup>n</sup>-ions Beyond the Sedenions | arxiv=math/0207003 | year=2002 | url=https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207003 | doi=10.48550/arXiv.math/0207003}}</ref>

The 512 - dimensional ennecadinions come after the voudons.

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