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The square that got distributed

You square a sum term by term.

$(a+b+c)^2$ is the three squares plus every cross product: $a^2+b^2+c^2+2ab+2ac+2bc$. The vector version is the same: $|\underline{a}+\underline{b}|^2 = |\underline{a}|^2 + 2\,\underline{a}\cdot\underline{b} + |\underline{b}|^2$.

Next time: Count how many terms the square should have before writing them.

Try it: Work one on a block