Is beyond where I went with algebra
It also lets you decompose higher-order powers V^(\tensor 2n) into correspondingly more pieces. Also those pieces tend to have interesting properties, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_geometry … uses exterior powers on the cotangent space of a manifold to do something or other
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OK, I was looking at that same Wiki article a couple of months ago for an unrelated reason (coming at it from Hamiltonian mechanics), so maybe someday I need to understand this!
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