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