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moe darklight
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ok... back in school after a 3-week faculty strike.
I'm pretty sure I got this wrong:
specifics aren't important. the question was to find a point on a given plane closest to a point A.
What I did was find a point B on the plane, and do proj(n)(AB)
n being a normal to the plane.
... when I look in my textbook the answer to a question like this is perp(n)(BA). Are they both right, or did I do it wrong? ... I mean, it makes sense to me that a projection of AB onto n would land in the same place, no?
I'm pretty sure I got this wrong:
specifics aren't important. the question was to find a point on a given plane closest to a point A.
What I did was find a point B on the plane, and do proj(n)(AB)
n being a normal to the plane.
... when I look in my textbook the answer to a question like this is perp(n)(BA). Are they both right, or did I do it wrong? ... I mean, it makes sense to me that a projection of AB onto n would land in the same place, no?