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From: minforth <minforth@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Vector sum
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:53:20 +0200
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Am 19.07.2025 um 12:18 schrieb Anton Ertl:

> One way to deal with all that would be to have a long-vector stack and
> have something like my vector wordset
> <https://github.com/AntonErtl/vectors>, where the sum of a vector
> would be a word that is implemented in some lower-level way (e.g.,
> assembly language); the sum of a vector is actually a planned, but not
> yet existing feature of this wordset.
>

Not wanting to sound negative, but who in practice adds up long
vectors, apart from testing compilers and fp-arithmetic?

Dot products, on the other hand, are fundamental for many linear
algebra algorithms, eg. matrix multiplication and AI.