Timeline for More Vector Product Possibilities?
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | theboombody | I just wanted to make sure this wasn't some arbitrary assignment - like minutes are assigned for time and degrees for angles. Because once that arbitrary assignment has been established for a while, it's REALLY tough to get rid of. Even today we still use degrees more often than the more natural radians. I have no idea how old the dot product is, but my thought was, if the dot product was made (or discovered) BEFORE basis transformations became used, then it's more likely to be arbitrary, and transformation rules were built around it instead of the other way around. | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 19:00 | history | answered | Norbert Schuch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |