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In my experience it would not be typical to use a wedge to represent a cross product. Typically a wedge is used to refer to the outer/exterior product, which in three dimensions would correspond to a bivector as opposed to the vector you get from a cross product.





Wikipedia says it’s more common in physics, and we mostly used it in that context (e.g. fluid mechanics) rather than pure math. It was pronounced “veck”, IIRC.



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