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Stack the vectors up so it's a matrix and take the determinant. The sign tells you which one it is.


No, it does not. The determinant tells you whether two bases have the same or different handedness, not which one is "left" or "right".


It's 2 cosets, one is arbitrarily left handed and the other arbitrarily right handed. If you are in an orientable space :) if not, then there's no global concept of left or right. a


Formulated differently, you cannot determine left- and right-handedness but you can determine same-handedness.




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