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<p>to <a href="page.php?w=Euler_angles">Euler angles</a>, they are simpler to <a href="page.php?w=function_composition">compose</a>. However, they are not as intuitive and easy to understand and, due to the <a href="page.php?w=Periodic_function">periodic nature</a> of <a href="page.php?w=sine">sine</a> and cosine, rotation angles differing precisely by the natural period will be encoded into identical quaternions and recovered angles in <a href="page.php?w=radian">radian</a>s will be limited to .</p>

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