Why electric current is a scalar with definition

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Electric current is a scalar quantity. It represents the direction of flow of positive charge but it is treated as a scalar quantity because current follows the laws of scalar addition and not the laws of vector addition, because the angle between the wires carrying current does not effect the total current in the circuit.

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