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9 Aug 2024 23:30:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Name for Z coordinate  
From: cadman
Date: 26 Apr 2000 22:57:06
Message: <3907ac82@news.povray.org>
I propose that we name it...

Josh English <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote in message
news:39073060.B488FD85@spiritone.com...
> 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?
>
> --
> Josh English
> eng### [at] spiritonecom
> "May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."
>
>


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