As far as I’ve always understood the terminology, when someone talks about the “normal” to a hyperplane, N, that means they’re describing the set of points x such that:
x·N = c
for some constant c.
If the hyperplane passes through the origin, then c=0, but for a general affine hyperplane, c need not be zero.
Greg Egan /
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2024-04-23 10:40:04
in reply to nevent1q…q04y
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