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Explain yourselves, comp sci.
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Maybe they mean std::vector in C++?
It's a terrible name. The math answer is what I would give.
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.That makes sense.
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.