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- From: jmorris@math.macalstr.edu (Jesse Morris)
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- Subject: Re: 3d programming
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- Date: 19 Feb 1996 19:41:34 GMT
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- > Now where the hell do you get "any ordered pair" from the above definitions, or
- > should I dig out my 8th grade linear algebra book :( don't ask why I still have
- > it ): .
-
- > Just dug it out anyway. NOWHERE is there a definition or is "vector" even
- > listed.
-
- > Just did a little more research. Guess what. . . "Vector" is not considered a
- > part of "linear Algebra", it is a part of Physics and Calculus. So unless you
- > have an 8th grade education and that is where you stopped, your definition of
-
- Linear algebra from 8th grade is different from the college level
- linear algebra - it generally deals with the specific case of two
- dimensional space. A college linear algebra course will deal with Ax = b
- in n dimensional space. A is a matrix, and x and b are called vectors,
- which are really (at least in this context) simply a n x 1 matrices.
- (Note that in matrices mxn means m rows and n columns reverse of normal
- x, y convention)
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