On вторник, 28 марта 2017 г. 01:18:18 EEST Rafael Roquetto wrote: > It > clearly has nothing to do anymore with the vector from my geometry classes. > I don't know why it received the named 'vector' in first place, but I am > willing to bet this is the derivation that some people in linguistics call > a 'dead metaphor' (except that the original vector is still alive).
I think, it came not from the geometr, but from the linear algebra, where vector is a m x 1 or 1 x m matrix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_and_column_vectors _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
