While leafing through the Vector API today, I had a few questions...

toArray() -- should we really have this? the values, without the
dimensions/indices, don't seem necessarily meaningful. It is used in
one place, DenseMatrix.assignRow(), but seems like there is a
potential bug there. The way its used, assumes the vector is
non-sparse.

get()/getQuick() -- can these be merged now? seems like we would
rather not have this distinction.

copy() -- the semantics here seem identical to the standard clone()
method on Object. Should we just switch to clone()?

Also what is the intended difference between size and cardinality --
size is number of elements actually set to a non-zero value,
cardinality is the actual dimension of the vector?

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