The term vector is also commonly used in GIS/GPS data to define
point-to-point line definitions of sampled areas - the connecting lines
or arcs between the beginning and end points. Coming from a GIS
background, that was the first thing I thought of when I heard of the
new Vector array. I thought
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> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:12:22 -0400
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Glen Pike
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"TypedArray"?
It's probably a Ja
To quote a comment:
"It's called a vector because Alex Stepanov, the designer of the
Standard Template Library, was looking for a name to distinguish it from
built-in arrays. He admits now that he made a mistake, because
mathematics already uses the term 'vector' for a fixed-length set of
nu
Well, the word vector has more than one meaning. This same question was
asked sometime ago in stackoverflow, about C++ std vectors. You might like
to check it out.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/581426/why-is-a-c-vector-called-a-vector
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2009/4/27, Glen Pike :
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> I
It's probably a Java thing - Java has really annoying typed arrays
called Vector too - seems that there should be a big argument whether
the mathematical definition of vector should overrule the computer
science definition based on age, but then we would all have to reset our
screens because 0,
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