Christopher Heckman <[email protected]> writes: > David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Frankly, that's academic. It reminds me of the excessive amount of >> energy placed into keeping the mathematics(!) of location vectors and >> difference vectors separate. > > When you ask the question, "What does the sum of two vectors mean?" > you have to know what they represent, and therein the difference > actually lies. The numerical computation is, of course, the same.
I guess I am a slide rule guy. My tools are responsible for doing the numbers and I am responsible for keeping track of the meaning. Traditional role models. -- David Kastrup
