You are technically correct, it's just that when the vector of booleans gets long enough they start to exhibit certain properties that "normal" binary vectors d

You are technically correct, it's just that when the vector of booleans gets long enough they start to exhibit certain properties that "normal" binary vectors don't have. Because of this the authors use the term "hyper dimensional vector" to let other professional researchers quickly know what they are talking about. Here's a decent blog post about some of those properties: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2016/02/06/why-hyperdimensional-socks-never-match/ http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2016/02/06/why-hyperdimens... I kind of agree that "hyper-dimensional" sounds like a dumb buzzword, and maybe it is. But I do think we should have a word for vectors that are big enough that they fall in this regime.