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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 09:39:38 -0700
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
From: Steven Eiger <eiger@montana.edu>
Subject: Re: Vectors
>As we know that all vectors have both magnitudes and directions. Is it
>also true that if a quantity which has magnitude and direction, is a
>vector quantity? A. Rahbar {rahbar@alpha.nsula.edu}
I once heard, I think from a mathematician, that anything that requires two
numbers to describe it is called a vector. This is a much more general
meaning than most physics folks are used to. Eiger