polar coordinate
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Instead of using stodgy Cartesian coordinates, Black Rock City is organized along polar coordinates, making its coordinate system unique among massive fire-themed desert art festivals.
From Scientific American
Right, firing rate as a function of head direction during random foraging, plotted in polar coordinates.
From Nature
Critical mathematical applications such as Fourier transforms, Riemann zeta functions, Gaussian distributions, roots of unity, integrating over polar coordinates and pretty much anything involving trigonometry employs pi.
From Scientific American
The complex number 1+i, written in rectangular and polar coordinates.
From Scientific American
In the geometry of motion under central forces the advantage of working with polar coordinates is great.
From Project Gutenberg
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