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geometry

  

CrossProduct

  

compute the cross product of two directed segments

 

Calling Sequence

Parameters

Description

Examples

Calling Sequence

CrossProduct(dseg1, dseg2)

Parameters

dseg1, dseg2

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two directed segment

Description

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The cross product  can be interpret as the signed area of the parallelogram formed by the point , dseg1, dseg2 and .

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Note that the tails of dseg1 and dseg2 must be the same.

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The command with(geometry,CrossProduct) allows the use of the abbreviated form of this command.

Examples

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See Also

geometry[area]

geometry[dsegment]

geometry[point]

geometry[triangle]

 


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