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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: Line normal
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:27:57 GMT
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A 3D line in space has an infinite number of lines normal to it.

Are you referring to a 2D line?

Steven

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:11:45 GMT, kr705@gre.ac.uk (Rad) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>If I have a line, how do I calculate another line perpendicular to
>this line?
>Or should that be how do I calculate the normal to a line?
>
>Thanks,
>Rad.