## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996  Kurt Hornik
## 
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} cross (@var{x}, @var{y})
## Computes the vector cross product of the two 3-dimensional vectors
## @var{x} and @var{y}.  For example,
## 
## @example
## @group
## cross ([1,1,0], [0,1,1])
##      @result{} [ 1; -1; 1 ]
## @end group
## @end example
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Created: 15 October 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe

function z = cross (x, y)
  
  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("cross (x, y)");
  endif

  if (length (x) == 3 && length (y) == 3)

    z = [x(2)*y(3) - x(3)*y(2); x(3)*y(1) - x(1)*y(3); x(1)*y(2) - x(2)*y(1)];

    x_nr = rows (x);
    y_nr = rows (y);

    if ((x_nr == y_nr && x_nr == 1)
 	|| (x_nr != y_nr && ! prefer_column_vectors))
      z = z.';
    endif

  else
    error ("cross: both x and y must be 3-dimensional vectors");
  endif

endfunction