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@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 2. Add references and start citing them.
 
-3. Implement the octonion simple EJA.
+3. Implement the octonion simple EJA. We don't actually need octonions
+   for this to work, only their real embedding (some 8x8 monstrosity).
 
 4. Pre-cache charpoly for some small algebras?
 
@@ -14,3 +15,23 @@ sage: a0 = (1/4)*X[4]**2*X[6]**2 - (1/2)*X[2]*X[5]*X[6]**2 - (1/2)*X[3]*X[4]*X[6
 5. Profile the construction of "large" matrix algebras (like the
    15-dimensional QuaternionHermitianAlgebra(3)) to find out why
    they're so slow.
+
+6. Instead of storing a basis multiplication matrix, just make
+   product_on_basis() a cached method and manually cache its
+   entries. The cython cached method lookup should be faster than a
+   python-based matrix lookup anyway.
+
+7. What the ever-loving fuck is this shit?
+
+       sage: O = Octonions(QQ)
+       sage: e0 = O.monomial(0)
+       sage: e0*[[[[]]]]
+       [[[[]]]]*e0
+
+8. In fact, could my octonion matrix algebra be generalized for any
+   algebra of matrices over the reals whose entries are not real? Then
+   we wouldn't need real embeddings at all. They might even be fricking
+   vector spaces if I did that...
+
+9. Add HurwitzMatrixAlgebra subclass between MatrixAlgebra and
+   OctonionMatrixAlgebra.