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cross_product

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cross_product(v) public

Returns the cross product of this vector with the other.

Vector[1, 0, 0].cross_product Vector[0, 1, 0]   => Vector[0, 0, 1]

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# File lib/matrix.rb, line 1764
  def cross_product(v)
    Vector.Raise ErrDimensionMismatch unless size == v.size && v.size == 3
    Vector[ v[2]*@elements[1] - v[1]*@elements[2],
            v[0]*@elements[2] - v[2]*@elements[0],
            v[1]*@elements[0] - v[0]*@elements[1] ]
  end

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