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Gibbs/Heavysides style vectors are convenient because it works with our 3D intuition, but Grassman/Clifford style works better for the differential calculus of gradient decent, hyper planes of DBScan, computer graphics etc...

Here is a programer friendly site that may be of help for those who are interested.

The geometric product being the sum of the exterior and dot products also solves a lot of things you run into with vector and tensor analysis.

https://bivector.net/



I like to think of GA as strongly-typed matrix algebra. Instead of putting everything into one type (a matrix of numbers), it recognises and makes explicit physical concepts such as surfaces and volumes.




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