The word coordinate refers to the numbers used to describe a vector.
More technically, the coordinates of a vector are the projections of the vector onto the coordinate axes.
The verb to check probably qualifies as one of these Primitives that we’ve talked about. If we give you the vector (3, 4) You could tell yourself “project over 3 and then project up 4.”
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There could be confusion for two different reasons:
We also use the word component. It’s natural for students to ask, which word should I use, when two choices are available.
There might be some confusion because we refer to the x coordinate or the y coordinate.
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