Why is a C++ Vector called a Vector?

Question

The question\'s pretty self-explanatory really. I know vaguely about vectors in maths, but I don\'t really see the link to C++ vectors.

Answer 1

An excerpt from The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup:

"One could argue that valarray should have been called vector because it is a traditional mathematical vector and that vector should have been called array. However, this is not the way the terminology evolved."