01-02-2017, 11:29 AM
(01-02-2017, 09:11 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: (why called the cross-product? That is a specific term from the mathematical topic of vector spaces and doesn’t involve the multiplication of regular numbers at all)
That seemed incongruous to me as well, but I think it might just simply be related to the fact that the product is supposed to characterize the crossing (the crossing-product in other words).