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9 Aug 2024 23:20:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Name for Z coordinate  
From: Simon de Vet
Date: 26 Apr 2000 17:49:09
Message: <39076464.26DE5C58@istar.ca>
Josh English wrote:

> My teacher posed this question to us last night, and he doesn't know the
> answer himself.
> A student once new that the x coordinate was called the abcissa, and the
> y coordinate is called the ordinate. Since we're starting R3 calculus,
> this student wanted to know if there was a name for the z coordinate.
>
> Does anyone know of one?

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