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		cousin_it on Dec 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Milton Friedman's Thermostat I think I can make up a variant of the problem that doesn't boil down to scalar vs vector. Imagine the driver is still trying to keep a constant speed, but the road is now horizontal, and the car gets slowed down by mud instead of hills.

Evbn on Dec 13, 2012 [–]

That's exactly the same. Vector refers to directionality, not number of dimensions.

pseut on Dec 13, 2012 | [–]

But the only thing varying is a scalar, is the point. The fact that you can write it as a vector is irrelevant.

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