Example 1. Find the volume of the parallelepiped constructed on the vectors $\vec{a}\{1,2,3\}, \vec{b}\{0,1,1\}, \vec{c}\{2,1,-1\}$.
Solution. The desired volume $V=|\vec{a} \cdot \vec{b} \cdot \vec{c}|$. Since

$$
\left|\begin{array}{rrr}
1 & 2 & 3 \\
0 & 1 & 1 \\
2 & 1 & -1
\end{array}\right|=-4
$$

then $V=4$