Talk:Multi-dimensional array: Difference between revisions
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::As to actual reasons to prefer column-major or row-major? I don't know the original reason. There may be actually none, in fact. Since it's mostly equivalent (regarding implementation of numerical algorithms), it's perfectly acceptable to choose one or the other. And to see why it's equivalent, I suggest having a look at ''Matrix Computations'' (Golub & Val Loan). They give a good discussion on row-wise and column-wise algorithms.
::[[User:Arbautjc|Arbautjc]] ([[User talk:Arbautjc|talk]]) 11:11, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
::: Most statements using "normal" and "mathematics" in the same sentence are superficially plausible, but actually wrong (unless we are talking about something related to normal vectors, for example).
:::Anyways, the task asked for some description about contiguous storage issues which is probably what led to this tangent.
:::Puns intended. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 12:35, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
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