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Dense Vectors                                                           [TOC]
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__Dense vectors__ have their elements stored linearly in memory separated from
each other by a constant stride.  If you create a dense vector that allocates
its own memory then its stride will equal one.  Strides different from one
naturally arise when dealing with vector views.  Vector views can reference
vector slices or rows/columns of matrices.

:links: Dense vectors -> doc:flens/vectortypes/impl/densevector

First Steps
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We start with the typical task: setting up a vector, initializing it,
manipulating it and printing it.


Example Code
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:import: flens/examples/tut01-page04-example01.cc [stripped, downloadable]

Comments on Example Code
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:import: flens/examples/tut01-page04-example01.cc [brief]

Compile and Run
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 |  cd flens/examples                                                         |
 |  g++ -Wall -std=c++11 -I../.. tut01-page04-example01.cc                    |
 |  ./a.out                                                                   |
 |                                                                            |
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*

Vectors Referencing Matrix Rows, Columns and Diagonals
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Referencing rows, columns or diagonals of a matrix is a common task in
numerical algorithms.  So here we show how to do this for general matrices
where the corresponding vector views are dense vectors.



Example Code
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:import: flens/examples/tut01-page04-example02.cc [stripped, downloadable]

Comments on Example Code
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:import: flens/examples/tut01-page04-example02.cc [brief]

Compile and Run
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 |  cd flens/examples                                                         |
 |  g++ -Wall -std=c++11 -I../.. tut01-page04-example02.cc                    |
 |  ./a.out                                                                   |
 |                                                                            |
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*


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