it is at this juncture I feel morally obliged to point out

[silece]

that the real numbers R are not, in fact, one dimentional, and are not, in fact, scalars.

They are vectors, having two dimentions each, both a magnitude and direction.

|-------0-------|
-n +n
magnitude, n
direction, -/+

Yes, I understand the definition of vector applies to everything under consideration except the Real numbers,

Comments

[klein_spinner]

someone been reading text books again for fun?

[silece]

there's another reason?

Possibly because the formatting of the number line was borked

[silece]

Although unless you did Maths C or Physics in high school you may have never come across the stuff. Would you like me to explain it? And with it my crackpot take?

Re: well... (of course this is the time I get busy at work)

[silece]

ordinary numbers are called "scalars" and have only one component to them, their size, or magnitude, for example the size of the number 5 is "5" (duh, yes, but carrying on