rectangular coordinates
Britishplural noun
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Find the equation of the surface in rectangular coordinates.
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In the xy-plane, the right triangle shown in Figure 2.89 provides the key to transformation between cylindrical and Cartesian, or rectangular, coordinates.
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As with rectangular coordinates, we can also use polar coordinates to find areas of certain regions using a double integral.
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Figure 1.35 shows a spiral in rectangular coordinates.
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I also made myself master of the theories of rectangular coordinates and some of the differential processes applying to them, which only a few of the best of the university mathematicians then wholly possessed.
From Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by Airy, George Biddell
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