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It’s a dynamically-sized list of objects of the same type stored contiguously in memory.
It’s a dynamically-sized list of objects of the same type stored contiguously in memory.
dynamically-sized: The size of it can change as needed.
list: It stores multiple things together.
object: A bit of programmer defined data.
of the same type: all the objects in the list are defined the same way
stored contigiously in memory: if you think of memory as a bookshelf then all the objects on the list would be stored right next to each other on the bookshelf rather than spread across the bookshelf.
Dynamically sized but stored contiguously makes the systems performance engineer in me weep. If the lists get big, the kernel is going to do so much churn.
matlab likes to pick the smallest available spot in memory to store a list, so for loops that increase the size of a matrix it’s recommended to preallocate the space using a matrix full of zeros!
Is that churn or chum? (RN or M)
Churm
Many things like each other lined up in a row, and you can take some away or put more in.
So an ArrayList?
Ooh, do tensors next!
You should ask your biologist friend and your physicist friend and your compsci friend to debate about what vectors are. Singularities, too.
Tensors are easy!
It’s just a fancy list of fancy lists! :D
As a mathematician this genuinely hurts. Lol.
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.
I know what a vector is in computer science; do you know why it’s named that?
This might hit harder if it weren’t for the fact that words very can have multiple senses
