From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp? Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:38:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87pp0dwlmc.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87oafzpqfj.fsf@debian.uxu> <87lhb2cjy5.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <876126w0t8.fsf@debian.uxu> <871tctcyj3.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445095832 21810 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2015 15:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:30:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 17:30:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTR9-0005gz-Av for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:30:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTR8-0006P9-Iz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39917) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTQu-0006Ow-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTQr-00036s-K8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTQr-00035W-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTQq-0005Nx-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:30:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9+Jgd9KeJSr3uVC67c+ppdLveP0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107711 Archived-At: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: > Obviously not. > > And linear algebra deals with matrices and tensors > etc, which are arrays! They are not called arrays but matrices so there is no confusing the data structure array with the linear algebra concept matrix. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573