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abscissa) The horizontal distance from the y-axis in coordinate geometry. In this diagram the abscissa is 4. In coordinate geometry, the x-coordinate of a point - that is, the horizontal distance of that point from the vertical or y-axis. For example, a point with the coordinates (4, 3) has an abscissa of 4. The y-coordinate of a point is known as the ordinate. |
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Using Eglash's Virtual Bead Loom program, you can experiment with the Cartesian coordinate system to make your own beautiful works of art. He is immortalized today in the name of the Cartesian coordinate system, and the transformation of thought he helped usher has left repercussions up to the modern day. In Sommerfeld's rigorous treatment of diffraction by a straight edge the screen is assumed to be a perfectly conducting, infinitesimally thin, semi-infinite sheet that covers the half-plane x > 0, z = 0 of the Cartesian coordinate system in Fig. |
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