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From: Janek Kozicki (janek_listy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-18 15:38:39


Geoffrey Irving said: (by the date of Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:35:50 -0700)

> > Therefore currently I would prefer to avoid name 'geometry' because we
> > are in fact talking about just linear algebra (that's what vectors and
> > matrices are).
>
> Most people who see linear algebra will think large dimensional spaces,
> large dimensional linear system solves, eigen-analysis, etc. How
> about just 'vectors'?

good idea. this name fits great. We call it 'vectors', and inside we have
vectors/matrices/quaternions. No one will expect too much from this
library.

maybe even 'small vectors' ? I don't know :)

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |

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