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by adrian_b
671 days ago
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Since the beginning of computer technology, "array" is the term that has been used for any multi-dimensional array, with "vectors" and "matrices" being special kinds of arrays. An exception was COBOL, which had a completely different terminology in comparison with the other programming languages of that time. Among the long list of differences between COBOL and the rest were e.g. "class" instead of "type" and "table" instead of "array". Some of the COBOL terminology has been inherited by languages like SQL or Simula 67 (hence the use of "class" in OOP languages). A "tensor", as used in mathematics in physics is not any array, but it is a special kind of array, which is associated with a certain coordinate system and which is transformed by special rules whenever the coordinate system is changed. The "tensor" in TensorFlow is a fancy name for what should be called just "array". When an array is bidimensional, "matrix" is an appropriate name for it. |
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