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Excerpt from The Outlines of Quaternions
Every vector, then, implicitly involves three numbers; one indicating its length, and two its direction.
A vector is not to be confounded with the radius vector of Algebraic Geometry. The latter represents length only, and implies but one number. It is, in fact, one of the three numbers contained in a vector.
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