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English is not my native language, and "orthogonal concepts" always mean something along the lines of "mutually exclusive" in my head.
by naitgacem 3y ago
English is not my native language, and "orthogonal concepts" always mean something along the lines of "mutually exclusive" in my head.
- tubs 3y agoIt is used to say that there isn't really a relationship between them.
- teo_zero 3y agoNot at all, it means independent from each other. Like the x and y coordinates of a point in a plane: you can set one of them to the value you want and it won't affect the other. This only happens when the x and y axes intersect at 90°, hence the "orthogonal".
- quickthrower2 3y agoGood explanation. I first got confused by this colloquial use of orthogonal even though having done a course on vector spaces!