Class

The Vector class represents a mathematical vector, which is useful in its own right, and also constitutes a row or column of a Matrix.

Method Catalogue

To create a Vector:

To access elements:

To enumerate the elements:

Properties of vectors:

Vector arithmetic:

Vector functions:

Conversion to other data types:

String representations:

Attributes
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INSTANCE CREATION

Class Methods

Creates a Vector from a list of elements.

Vector[7, 4, ...]

Returns a standard basis n-vector, where k is the index.

Vector.basis(size:, index:) # => Vector[0, 1, 0]

Creates a vector from an Array. The optional second argument specifies whether the array itself or a copy is used internally.

Returns true iff all of vectors are linearly independent.

Vector.independent?(Vector[1,0], Vector[0,1])
  => true

Vector.independent?(Vector[1,2], Vector[2,4])
  => false

Vector.new is private; use Vector[] or Vector.elements to create.

Instance Methods

Multiplies the vector by x, where x is a number or a matrix.

Vector addition.

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Vector subtraction.

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Vector division.

Returns true iff the two vectors have the same elements in the same order.

Returns element number i (starting at zero) of the vector.

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Returns an angle with another vector. Result is within the [0…Math::PI].

Vector[1,0].angle_with(Vector[0,1])
# => Math::PI / 2

Returns a copy of the vector.

The coerce method provides support for Ruby type coercion. This coercion mechanism is used by Ruby to handle mixed-type numeric operations: it is intended to find a compatible common type between the two operands of the operator. See also Numeric#coerce.

Collects (as in Enumerable#collect) over the elements of this vector and v in conjunction.

An alias for []

Creates a single-row matrix from this vector.

An alias for cross_product

Returns the cross product of this vector with the others.

Vector[1, 0, 0].cross_product Vector[0, 1, 0]   => Vector[0, 0, 1]

It is generalized to other dimensions to return a vector perpendicular to the arguments.

Vector[1, 2].cross_product # => Vector[-2, 1]
Vector[1, 0, 0, 0].cross_product(
   Vector[0, 1, 0, 0],
   Vector[0, 0, 1, 0]
)  #=> Vector[0, 0, 0, 1]
An alias for inner_product

Iterate over the elements of this vector

Iterate over the elements of this vector and v in conjunction.

An alias for []
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Returns a hash-code for the vector.

Returns true iff all of vectors are linearly independent.

Vector[1,0].independent?(Vector[0,1])
  => true

Vector[1,2].independent?(Vector[2,4])
  => false

Returns the inner product of this vector with the other.

Vector[4,7].inner_product Vector[10,1]  => 47

Overrides Object#inspect

Returns the modulus (Pythagorean distance) of the vector.

Vector[5,8,2].r => 9.643650761
An alias for collect

Like Vector#collect2, but returns a Vector instead of an Array.

An alias for magnitude

Returns a new vector with the same direction but with norm 1.

v = Vector[5,8,2].normalize
# => Vector[0.5184758473652127, 0.8295613557843402, 0.20739033894608505]
v.norm => 1.0
#
An alias for magnitude

Returns a vector with entries rounded to the given precision (see Float#round)

An alias for []=
An alias for []=

Returns the number of elements in the vector.

Returns the elements of the vector in an array.

Overrides Object#to_s