User:Jim.belk/Draft:Column vector

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In linear algebra, a column vector is a matrix with a single column:

\textbf{x} = \begin{bmatrix} x_1 \\ x_2 \\ \vdots \\ x_m \end{bmatrix}

Though a column vector can be interpreted as a spatial vector with magnitude and direction, it Column vectors are often referred to as The set (mathematics) of all column vectors having n components is the Euclidean space Rn. This is the simplest example of a vector space.


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Because of the conventions used for matrix multiplication, column