Position vector

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Intro

A vector which denotes the position of an object that has magnitude equal to the distance between the object and the origin of the coordinate system and if the tail of the vector was placed at the origin the head of the vector would point to the object. These vectors have applications in physics engineering and computer graphics.

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Origin from Mathworld