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Re: Are points co-planar in (numDimensions-1)?

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  • Subject: [mg43328] Re: Are points co-planar in (numDimensions-1)?
  • From: "AngleWyrm" <no_spam_anglewyrm at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:55:42 -0400 (EDT)
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"Eckhard Hennig" <aidev at n-o-s-p-a-m.kaninkolo.de> wrote in message news:bi7odb$pfm$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> all you have to do to establish coplanarity in R^(n-1) of a set of
> n-dimensional vectors V is to check whether the null space of the linear
> mapping defined by V has dimension 1...

Ordinarily I wouldn't reply to a newsgroup with a simple thank you,
but learning about null spaces has been very educational for me. Thanks!
-Jonathan


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