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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So, in this example, the dot product tells us how much money the fruit vendor had in sales on that particular day.

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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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The dot product can also help us measure the angle formed by a pair of vectors and the position of a vector relative to the coordinate axes.

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The fourth property shows the relationship between the magnitude of a vector and its dot product with itself:

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