>>12696395You're using an electronic device to view this comment, right. Your screen has a finite area, which is just a numerical value. Now imagine Pepe is pointing a gun at you. He fires the gun. Oops, you're dead. But what happens if you rotate your screen so that you can't see this comment anymore? Pepe fires the gun. You're safe. That's how area is a vector: the direction it's facing matters for the flow of objects.
