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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 56 1 a Solution by
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The th coordinate plane has equation , hence covector . The line-plane incidence in Plücker coordinates formula reduces toThus the th column of the upper-index Plücker coordinates contains the intersection point's homogeneous coordinates, up to projective scaling. Its th entry vanishes as required. If that column is zero, both defining points have coordinate zero and the entire line is contained in the coordinate plane; there is no distinguished intersection point. Reading rows instead changes only the irrelevant overall sign.
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