Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> "Up"

In a right-handed coordinate system, yes.  In POV-speak, it would have
to be "Away".

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