Programming Language
Programming languages that implement matrices may have easy means for vectorization. In Matlab/GNU Octave a matrix A can be vectorized by A(:). In Python NumPy arrays implement the 'flatten' method (although this stacks the rows of the matrix, not the columns), while in R the desired effect can be achieved via the 'c' or 'as.vector' functions.
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