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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's an array.

First time I heard of vectors in comp-sci was in C++. The naming still doesn't make sense to me.

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[–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

I know what a vector is in computer science; do you know why it's named that?