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In-Reply-To: <3C561EC9.88F86501@null.net>:Douglas A. Gwyn's message of 09:31:47 Tuesday,29 January 2002
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:44:16 +0100
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Douglas A. Gwyn writes:
 > There are all sorts of "products" in mathematics,
 > but the so-called "cross product" is one of the least qualified
 > to go by that name.

I don't think so. It is the dual of the sesquilineal projection of the
tensorial product. I couln't resist writing it. :-)

The fact that it is anticonmutative doesn't stop it being a product,
it distributes with the sum and has an absorbing element (I don't know if
it is called so in English) and has all sorts of properties which make it a
product.

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                 Saludos,
                         Gorka

"Curiosity sKilled the cat"