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   minforth to All   
   Re: Vector sum   
   19 Jul 25 13:53:20   
   
   From: minforth@gmx.net   
      
   Am 19.07.2025 um 12:18 schrieb Anton Ertl:   
      
   > One way to deal with all that would be to have a long-vector stack and   
   > have something like my vector wordset   
   > , where the sum of a vector   
   > would be a word that is implemented in some lower-level way (e.g.,   
   > assembly language); the sum of a vector is actually a planned, but not   
   > yet existing feature of this wordset.   
   >   
      
   Not wanting to sound negative, but who in practice adds up long   
   vectors, apart from testing compilers and fp-arithmetic?   
      
   Dot products, on the other hand, are fundamental for many linear   
   algebra algorithms, eg. matrix multiplication and AI.   
      
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