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Geophysical data that we routinely process in a computer can always be represented as a set of real numbers, packed into a one-dimensional array. On the other hand, the mathematical concept of a vector can handle much more abstract constructions than simple arrays. As a language for engineering problems, Fortran 90 doesn't handle abstractions as well as other advanced languages such as C++. In particular, there is no elegant way to represent the idea of an abstract vector or an abstract vector space. However, the operator abstraction, presented in this paper, can be repeated to any concrete data type that we may find deserving special treatment.
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Stanford Exploration Project
11/11/1997