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Explain yourselves, comp sci. (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they mean std::vector in C++?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a terrible name. The math answer is what I would give.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a terrible name, since it's derived from the mathematical construct of vectors as n-tuples. In the case of vectors in programming, n relates to the size of the underlying array, and the tuple consists of the elements of the vector.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I myself was confused, when I first saw what a vector did in practice.
Really bad name.

But then I didn't take Comp Sci.