dot product

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AAA sales for the month of May can be calculated using the dot product p · q.

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The calculation involves forming vectors along the directions of the lines and using both the cross product and the dot product.

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The first type of vector multiplication is called the dot product, based on the notation we use for it, and it is defined as follows:

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Note that if u and v are two-dimensional vectors, we calculate the dot product in a similar fashion.

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Like vector addition and subtraction, the dot product has several algebraic properties.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016