what is the terms when you have a set of vectors describing a space?

where no vector can be described by any combination of the other vectors

Al P2009-05-20T21:28:06Z

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An orthogonal basis for the vector space.

A system of N mutually orthogonal basis vectors
that "describe" and span the vector space.

The Cartesian basis vectors:
V = (100, 010, 001)
are linearly independent: any component
vector in the space cannot be created by
combining the other two. Or more, in the
case of N dimensions.

The following basis would not be orthogonal:
V = (111,222,333)

jackdaniel012009-05-20T21:13:49Z

Those vectors are linearly independent.