title: Should arrays be thought of as horizontal or vertical structures
body: <p>I am working on some Matlab homework and I was having issues conceptualizing the way that it addresses matrices. In Matlab the matrix is address in <code>d(row,col)</code> format.</p>
  
  <p>I have been programming for a while and have always tended to think of a one dimensional array as a horizontal structure with a second dimension extending out from below. </p>
  
  <p>Which of these is a "more correct" way of thinking about an array data structure from the computer's point of view</p>