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From: lennartb@lne.kth.se (Lennart Boerjeson @ KTH/LNE, The Royal Inst. of Tech.)
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Subject: Re: Vector question.
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Date: 12 Sep 90 12:09:53 GMT
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In article <26087@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, frechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
>
>I am having a small problem and I am hoping someone can help me see what I must
>be doing wrong.  Currently, we are reviewing vectors in Calc and I have been
>playing around with all the vector stuff.  I did a bunch of neat stuff with 
>3d vectors like DOT CROSS etc.... Then today, I wanted to do a simple dot
>product of two 2d vectors. I enter.
>2 3 ->V2
>4 5 ->V2
>and get 
>(2,3)
>(4,5)
>on the stack.  These are NOT vectors.  The only things that I can do with them
>is add and subtract ans such.  No DOT....
>At this point I had to check 3d so I entered.
>2 3 4 ->V3
>5 6 7 ->V3
>and got
>[2 3 4]
>[5 6 7]
>which is much better... Everything works great with this.  I am now thinking
>that there is a flag set wrong or something...
>I ahve it set to Decimal, STD, Rectangular.  Polar and spherical change
>nothing.  Still () in V2 and [] in V3.    I can't find it in the manual, but 
>that doesn't mean that it isn't there.  Can anyone help me?  In case it is
>relevant, I have a version C ROM.  Thanks for help.....
>
>	ian
>
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