Thanks, but over the years I have come to treasure my ignorance.

But those two also tend to make my point. Why confuse a math newbie with ordinate and abscissa when 'x-coordinate' and 'y-coordinate' are much more self-explanatory? Especially when 'abscissa' sounds like an infected tooth?

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