Raw arrays are helpful for storing variable length chunks of binary data. The alternative is to break it up into chars and store to a vector. That seems pretty ugly.

When you're working in three dimensions, the only way to prove that three points are in a line (collinear) involves showing that a common direction exists. For this, you need to use vectors. Here's ...

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