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Wedge product/Parallelotopes/Remark

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It is not easy to build up an imagination for the expressions v1vn and . More important than the "meaning“ of these symbols is their transformation behavior and the calculation rules. It is rather the working with these symbols that gives them their meaning. However, we can say in a vague sense that v1vn represents the "oriented“ parallelotope generated by the vectors v1,,vn. The wedge product nV consists of all linear combinations of such parallelotopes.