Let V {\displaystyle {}V} be a Euclidean vector space, U ⊆ V {\displaystyle {}U\subseteq V} a linear subspace, and v ∈ V {\displaystyle {}v\in V} . Let u 1 , … , u m {\displaystyle {}u_{1},\ldots ,u_{m}} denote an orthonormal basis of U {\displaystyle {}U} .