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Vector?

Silicon Valley and FDA, please group in a room and decide on only one of these:

1- Find an effective drug for weak memory and attention in the modern world.

2- Stop inventing new terms.

wat? The topic is pretty clearly vectors in the mathematical sense (1), as coined by Hamilton in 1846 (2), which predates the FDA by 60 years (3)

Ok sorry

Vector is an old term going back to at least the 19th century with its use by Josiah Willard Gibbs and Oliver Heaviside.

Do you have a preferred term for points in an N-space?