What are the Miller Indices for a Plane with an Outside Cube Interception?

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Homework Statement



Question is to determine the miller indices of the plane

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I know how to determine miller indices but in this problem the y intercept lies outside the cube. Do I have to somehow shift it so that it lies inside the cube ?, or just leave it as is ?

Here are the co ordinates for the intercepts (infinity, 3/2, 1)
 
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TheRedDevil18 said:
Do I have to somehow shift it so that it lies inside the cube ?
No, just leave it as it is. You should do only two things. 1) Inversion of the coordinates. 2) Multiplication by the LCM of the denominators.( In case a denominator is [itex]\infty[/itex], just ignore it!).
So the miller indices are [itex](0,2,3)[/itex].