Coordinate system
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In geometry, a coordinate system is a system which uses one or more numbers, or coordinates, to uniquely determine the position of a point or other geometric element on a manifold such as Euclidean space.
Description
The order of the coordinates is significant and they are sometimes identified by their position in an ordered tuple and sometimes by a letter, as in "the x-coordinate".
The coordinates are taken to be real numbers in elementary mathematics, but may be complex numbers or elements of a more abstract system such as a commutative ring.
The use of a coordinate system allows problems in geometry to be translated into problems about numbers and vice versa; this is the basis of analytic geometry.
See also
- Absolute angular momentum
- Alpha-numeric grid
- Analytic geometry
- Astronomical coordinate systems
- Axes conventions in engineering
- Coordinate-free
- Fractional coordinates
- Frame of reference
- Galilean transformation
- Geographic coordinate system
- Geometry
- Nomogram, graphical representations of different coordinate systems
- Polar coordinate system - a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction.
- Rotation of axes
- Translation of axes
External links
- Coordinate system @ Wikipedia
