what is the meaning of "vector" in the context of algorithms?

Question

I'm familiar with the concept of vectors in math and physics, but this wording in a computer science textbook is unfamiliar to me.

A configuration in the shared memory model is a vector

$$C=(q_0,\dots, q_{n-1}, r_0,\dots, r_{m-1}) $$

Answer 1

This use of "vector" just means something with a number of components, in a specific order. Mathematicians would usually call it a (finite) sequence.