Vector

[…] In other words, matches: translates the Pattern and the String into a Direction Vector at each Step of the trip!

The theoretical physicist, Sean Carrol, once provocatively tweeted that reality was just a vector in a Hilbert space of a Hamiltonian system.

Here, Allen Kay reflects on the impact of Doug Engelbart's aspirations for 'augmenting human intellect' via computer-assisted 'thought vectors' as he discusses the early development of Smalltalk: