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[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To approach from another angle...

Tensors are generalizations of scalars (that have no indices), vectors (that have exactly one index), and matrices (that have exactly two indices) to an arbitrary number of indices.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tensor.html

[–] PlexSheep 5 points 1 day ago

That makes a lot of sense