On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:29:56 -0800, Harold Baize wrote:
>They aren't the initials of any particular words.
>My guess is that they were just taken from the alphabet.
>They describe coordinates in a curved 2D space.
>The letters were chosen by moving from z toward a.
>Since x, y and z have been used, for the standard 3D
>coordinates, someone decided upon u and v. Don't know
>what dimension w is used for...

It's the parametric mapping equivalent of z, just as u and v are the
parametric mapping equivalents of x and y.

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