#cartesian coordinets and whatnot
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Why did x y z become the designated coordinate symbols of all things
#was it arbitrary and it stuck or was there some reasoning for it#not complaining I'm curious#it's become sort of ubiquitous with cgi and games being so widespread#but it has to predate computers they were using this shit to fly planes or whatever#also why did the order of horizontal then vertical then depth become standard#is this a math history question#who do you point math history questions at#a quick search suggests that René Descartes is responsible for this#cartesian coordinets and whatnot#i don't know why x y and z though
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