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

Wonders that parametrisation on types does to names..

here a column gets blasted.. (view source for some server-side ASP.NET HTML encoding skills)

or was it a row?

Then again, thinking of it in MIMD or even SSE vector machine context, the name still sounds damn good.