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Quadrant


Quadrant

One of the four regions of the plane defined by the four possible combinations of signs (+,+), (+,-), (-,+), and (-,-) for (x,y).


See also

Hyperoctant, Octant, x-axis, y-axis

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References

Courant, R. and Robbins, H. What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, p. 73, 1996.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Quadrant." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Quadrant.html

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