CHAPTER 7 — Dot Product

Examine the operations that have been discussed so far:

Vector addition:	vector + vector	=	vector
Vector subtraction:	vector - vector	=	vector
Difference of points:	point - point	=	vector
Scaling:	real * vector	=	vector

This chapter discusses the dot product, which takes two vectors as operands and produces a real number as its output. Sometimes the dot product is called the inner product. Sometimes the dot product is called the scalar product, which should not be confused with the operation called scaling (but probably will be).