- From: Steve Schafer <steve@fenestra.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:20:39 -0500
- To: Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:11:44 -0500, you wrote: >This has always bothered me. It's completely wrong, a coordinate is a set >of two or more ordinates. Not true. A coordinate is ONE MEMBER of a set of coordinates. It's like co-captains of a sports team: Each individual is a co-captain; the group of them are co-captains. American Heritage Science Dictionary: "One of a set of numbers that determines the position of a point..." http://foldoc.org: "One member of a tuple of numbers which defines the position of a point in some space..." -Steve Schafer
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