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Let П be a plane through the origin in ℝ3, and let L be the line through the origin that is orthogonal to П. Then every vector X in ℝ3 can be expressed in the form
where U ∈ П and V ∈ L.
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Banchoff, T., Wermer, J. (1992). Orthogonal Decomposition of a Vector Space. In: Linear Algebra Through Geometry. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4390-8_30
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