 
<translate> Ka ba da wani rafi na sani sannan kuma amsar. Sunan "dot product" ya samo asali ne daga cibiyar dot ``" wanda ake amfani da shi sau da yawa don sanya wannan aikin; madadin sunan "scalar product" ya jaddada cewa sakamakon shine scalar, maimakon vector, kamar yadda lamarin yake ga samfurin vector a sarari mai girma uku.  Bisa ga wannan nassi, dot samfurin biyu vectors sakamakon a? <eng> Give some stream of consciousness and then the answer. The name "dot product" is derived from the centered dot ``" that is often used to designate this operation; the alternative name "scalar product" emphasizes that the result is a scalar, rather than a vector, as is the case for the vector product in three-dimensional space.

Based on this passage, the dot product of two vectors results in a? 