This is much nicer in functional languages that have tuples. Then an array of tuples (if normalized or flattened) is both stored efficiently and ready for vecto

This is much nicer in functional languages that have tuples. Then an array of tuples (if normalized or flattened) is both stored efficiently and ready for vectorization. You really don't want to model mathematical objects like vectors as mutable, heap-allocated objects. OO isn't the right fit here.