On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:01:51 -0800, Josh English wrote:
>I thought that I read in the docs that the length was the dot product, but
>in fact they say "The resulting vector is perpendicular to the two original
>vectors and its length is proportional to the angle between them." In my
>experiments, that distance did seem to be at its largest when the vectors
>were orthogonal.

Proportional to the sine of the angle between them.  Remind me to check the
docs when I get home.  Sine has a maximum at 90 degrees, so your experiments
were correct.

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
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