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Equation 50 · Part 1 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing

Symbol V

VV
VV

What this part means

V is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Its job in the formula

V is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

The covariance equation from the previous section is the formal cost of that fact. Because V commutes with the group action, the radiation’s reduced state along the true heading is a rotated copy of the same state at heading zero,

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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.

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