Mathematics-Online lexicon: Triangle Inequality

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	Triangle Inequality

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For the sum of two vectors the following holds:

$\displaystyle \vert\vec{a}+\vec{b}\vert \le \vert\vec{a}\vert + \vert\vec{b}\vert\,.$

We have equality if and only if $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ are parallel, that is $\vec{a}=s\vec{b}$ with $s \geq 0$ .

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automatically generated 3/28/2008