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Projection of a vector `veca` on vector `vecb` is given by

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`(veca.vecb)/(|vecb|)`

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`(|veca.vecb|)/(|veca|)`

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`(|veca|)/(veca.vecb)`

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`(|vecb|)/(veca.vecb)`

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