Three Points Determine a Plane
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Three noncollinear points in three dimensions determine a unique plane with an equation of the form , where
and
is the positive distance of the plane from the origin. The vector
is normal (perpendicular) to the plane and has norm (length) equal to 1.
Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr (December 2017)
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