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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Relativity/General_Relativity_(Crowell)/02%3A_Geometry_of_Flat_Spacetime/2.03%3A_Affine_Properties_of_Lorentz_Geometry_(Part_2)
      For now, let’s refer to a vector such as →e, with the arrow coming in, simply as a “vector,” and the type like c→ as a “dual vector.” In the one-dimensional example of the earth and the cuckoo clock, ...For now, let’s refer to a vector such as →e, with the arrow coming in, simply as a “vector,” and the type like c→ as a “dual vector.” In the one-dimensional example of the earth and the cuckoo clock, the roles played by the two vectors were completely equivalent, and it didn’t matter which one we expressed as a vector and which as a dual vector.

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