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cartesian coordinate system [kär′tē·zhən kō′ȯrd·nət ‚sis·təm] (mathematics) A coordinate system inndimensions wherenis any integer made by usingnnumber axes which intersect each other at right angles at an origin, enabling any point within that rectangular space to be identified by the distances from thenlines. Also known as rectangular cartesian coordinate system. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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