Mathematics-Online lexicon: Scalar multiplication

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	Scalar multiplication

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The vector $s\vec{a}$ corresponds to an '

-fold' translation, that is

$\displaystyle s\left(\begin{array}{c}a_1\\ a_2\\ a_3\end{array}\right) = \left(\begin{array}{c}sa_1\\ sa_2\\ sa_3\end{array}\right)\, .$

Particularly, we have $0\vec{a}=\vec{0}$ .

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automatically generated 3/28/2008