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10 Aug 2024 05:23:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Name for Z coordinate  
From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 28 Apr 2000 15:47:44
Message: <3909eae0@news.povray.org>
"cadman" <NOS### [at] graffitinet> wrote in message
news:3907ac82@news.povray.org...
> I propose that we name it...
>

    Well ordinate is the line, abscissa is the place where the line is cut,
Z is the extension of those into the third dimension, I suggest the Latin of
"extension" (prolatio or tractus?) or "Projection" (prominens?).


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