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Parallelepiped

A parallelepiped is a solid whose faces are all parallelograms.

The volume V of a parallelepiped is closely related to vector analysis and is given by the scalar triple product

V = a(bxc) = c(axb) = b(cxa).

Last Update: 2005-Aug-21