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| Posted by Timon Gehr in reply to evilrat | PermalinkReply |
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Timon Gehr
Posted in reply to evilrat
| On 12/12/24 10:02, evilrat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 December 2024 at 15:39:35 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 11 December 2024 at 08:25:14 UTC, Anton Pastukhov wrote:
>>>> array2d, array3d
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>>> Isn't there a consensus that it's called Vector?
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>> c++ lacks any taste in api, its opinion should be held in negative value
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> those poor mathematicians, they've been brainwashed by c++ folks
Pretty much. A `vector` ordinarily refers to an element of a vector space. I think resisting this terminology is valid, particularly as a mathematician.
Calling general arrays vectors is about as silly as calling general functions vectors, it's just that one of these has kind of caught on. I still think it is more weird to criticize an array API for _not_ using "vector" than for using "vector".
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