The concept of linear combinations of vectors is one thing you hear every single day in Linear Algebra class it’s annoying. So let The Prophet indulge in some of that bygone annoyance now. Put simply, a linear combination is an expression constructed from a set of terms by multiplying each term by a constant and adding the results credits: Wikipedia . Hey hey now please don’t get bored immediately thinking this is some drab mathematics bullshit. It's easy really. Let me explain with a picture. Behold my MS Word skills: Fig 1: Linear Combination (made in MS Word not MS Paint. Wow, I did not know one could do such cool things in MS Word! I know I know.) So we got an orange arrow, a green and a blue arrow. 8 pieces of the orange arrow for THING 1 and 11 pieces of the green arrow for THING 2 led up to the 13 pieces of the blue arrow, adding up to the NET THING. So NET THING is a linear combination of the orange and green pieces of THING 1 and 2. NET THING = 8 x THING...
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