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<h3 class="section">2.2 Math</h3>

<p>Chickadee contains data types and procedures for performing the most
common computations in video game simulations such as linear algebra
with vectors and matrices and axis-aligned bounding box collision
detection.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Vectors.html#Vectors" accesskey="2">Vectors</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Euclidean vectors.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Matrices.html#Matrices" accesskey="5">Matrices</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Transformation matrices.
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