If you want to make a quick (but delicious) shortbread cookie, then the 1-2-3 method of baking is perfect, but it falls short with other types of dough.

It’s well known that you can construct the octonions using triality. One statement of triality is that Spin ( 8) has nontrivial outer automorphisms of order 3. On the other hand, the octonions have ...