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so, the magnitude of the cross product represents the area or volume enclosed by any 2 or 3 vectors respectively, but what does the direction represent? i get that the general direction is one that is perpendicular to all the vectors, but what does the actual direction represent? ie, why the right hand rule? ie, why this particular direction instead of the opposite? is it just by convention or is there a particular reason?