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Dot Product

Sum of elementwise products of two vectors, equal to the product of their norms and the cosine of their angle — a single number measuring alignment. The primitive inside matrix multiplication and attention scoring alike.

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Vector Dot Product in Linear Algebra

In linear algebra, the dot product is a scalar operation defined by the summation of corresponding components of two vectors or geometrically by the product of their magnitudes and the cosine of the …