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## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Kurt Hornik
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
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## usage: cross (x, y)
##
## Computes the vector cross product of the two 3-dimensional vectors
## x and y.
## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Created: 15 October 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe
function z = cross (x, y)
if (nargin != 2)
usage ("cross (x, y)");
endif
if (length (x) == 3 && length (y) == 3)
z = [x(2)*y(3) - x(3)*y(2); x(3)*y(1) - x(1)*y(3); x(1)*y(2) - x(2)*y(1)];
x_nr = rows (x);
y_nr = rows (y);
if ((x_nr == y_nr && x_nr == 1)
|| (x_nr != y_nr && ! prefer_column_vectors))
z = z';
endif
else
error ("cross: both x and y must be 3-dimensional vectors");
endif
endfunction
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