From 572ae70685b91829aa2da8dc2ec75b4d950bd018 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Syed Umair <126373476+syed0369@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 21:48:18 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] small modification in basic geometry dot product --- src/geometry/basic-geometry.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/geometry/basic-geometry.md b/src/geometry/basic-geometry.md index 89acb1642..afd44b315 100644 --- a/src/geometry/basic-geometry.md +++ b/src/geometry/basic-geometry.md @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ double angle(point2d a, point2d b) { ``` To see the next important property we should take a look at the set of points $\mathbf r$ for which $\mathbf r\cdot \mathbf a = C$ for some fixed constant $C$. -You can see that this set of points is exactly the set of points for which the projection onto $\mathbf a$ is the point $C \cdot \dfrac{\mathbf a}{|\mathbf a|}$ and they form a hyperplane orthogonal to $\mathbf a$. +You can see that this set of points is exactly the set of points for which the projection onto $\mathbf a$ is the point $C \cdot \dfrac{\mathbf a}{|\mathbf a| ^ 2}$ and they form a hyperplane orthogonal to $\mathbf a$. You can see the vector $\mathbf a$ alongside with several such vectors having same dot product with it in 2D on the picture below: