Thanks for the help! I thought it was ~, but I didn't know about
express. Had I actually searched the maxima manual for cross product, I
would have found the entry for express. I did search several of the
tutorials and look at the entry for ~, but they didn't help.
Why is it not expanded automatically?
Fred Sullivan
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Wilkes University sullivan at mathcs.wilkes.edu
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 (570) 408-4727
First you make a roux!
Barton Willis wrote:
> -----Fred Sullivan wrote: -----
>
>
>>How do I compute a vector cross product? Either
>>the documentation is obscure or I'm obtuse.
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> (%i1) load("vect")$
> (%i2) [1,2,3]~[4,5,6];
> (%o2) [1,2,3]~[4,5,6]
> (%i3) express(%);
> (%o3) [-3,6,-3]
>
> Barton