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Re:HPTT: A High-Performance Tensor Transposition C++ Library by tome on Monday April 24, 2017 @09:30AM (#14184122)
> Probably for same reason as they use the name "vector" to refer one dimensional array, "matrix" to refer 2 dimensional array.

Yes, that's where the rot started.

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Re:HPTT: A High-Performance Tensor Transposition C++ Library by dsharlet on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:20PM (#14186106)
That "rot" likely started centuries before anyone even imagined a computer for an "array" to exist on.
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