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polar coordinate system

two-dimensional coordinate system where each point is determined by a distance from reference point and an angle from a reference direction
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Summary

polar coordinate system ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,043 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: orthogonal coordinate system[2]
  • Commons category: Polar coordinate system[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Polar coordinate system[4]
  • Commons gallery: Polar coordinate system[5]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/polar-coordinates[6]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[7]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics[8]

Why It Matters

polar coordinate system has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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