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Analytic geometry begins with the line. Every point on the line has a real number as its coordinate and every real number is the coordinate of exactly one point. A vector in the line is a directed line segment from the origin to a point with coordinate x. We denote this vector by a single capital letter X. The collection of all vectors in the line is denoted by ℝ1.
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Banchoff, T., Wenner, J. (1983). Vectors in the Line. In: Linear Algebra Through Geometry. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0161-5_1
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