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Nikita Krupenko krnekit at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 21:48:05 CEST 2017


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



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