Cartesian Space
A Euclidean plane with a chosen Cartesian system is called a Cartesian plane. Since Cartesian coordinates are unique and non-ambiguous, the points of a Cartesian plane can be identified with all possible pairs of real numbers; that is with the Cartesian product, where is the set of all reals. In the same way one defines a Cartesian space of any dimension n, whose points can be identified with the tuples (lists) of n real numbers, that is, with .
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“I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but
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Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;
Nay, followed him till he had melted from
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Have turned mine eye and wept.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)