From: deyan.z.hadzhiev@...
Date: 2014-02-07T15:46:11+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:60564] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9499] [Open] The Vector.cross_product function returns the opposite vector of the expected result

Issue #9499 has been reported by Deyan Hadzhiev.

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Bug #9499: The Vector.cross_product function returns the opposite vector of the expected result
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9499

* Author: Deyan Hadzhiev
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: lib
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-09-22) [i386-mingw32]
* Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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The member function of class Vector returns the opposite vector of the expected result. The function calculates the resulting vector as if the cross_product is v X self instead of self X v. Just to be sure I tried running the exact example from the 2.1.0 documentation, where is specified:
Vector[1, 0, 0].cross_product Vector[0, 1, 0] => Vector[0, 0, 1]
The documentation is right, but running the example produces Vector[0, 0, -1].
The fix is just to swap the two arguments of the '-' operator.
The implementation is in matrix.rb line:1764



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