dot product

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As you might expect, to calculate the dot product of four-dimensional vectors, we simply add the products of the components as before, but the sum has four terms instead of three.

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

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For this reason, the dot product is often called the scalar product.

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When two vectors are combined using the dot product, the result is a scalar.

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