"Josh English" <eng### [at] spiritone com> wrote in message
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> 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?
AFAIK there isn't one... check out:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/carpenter12.1.98.html
Matt
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