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Vectors Part 2
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I don't understand
Its easy to think about vectors in the first sense (as anything with direction and magnitude) when we're working with classical units (space, force, electric fields, etc)
But it becomes a nightmare to understand intuitively when the vector is defined as something with magnitude and direction when speaking about units that are not obvious to us humans (like time)
Thanks, but damn... I don't even understand your explanation. 😥 I work with vectors in Blender, so I have an intuitive understanding of them as per your first definition. But how are they less intuitive when talking about time? I don't get how this meme is structured
It is just to consider polynomials and functions as vectors, and apply our meager intuition on 3d spaces. By introducing norms (size), you recover the "size and direction" analogy.