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Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
> 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.

If you want to avoid confusions with linear algebra you can use the
word 'tuples' instead of 'vectors', like in Python.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple

One question: is a Python tuple exactly the same as a Lisp vector?