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In chapter 2 we introduced the concept of the two-dimensional rectangular coordinate system; we defined points in space as vectors, from which we were able to draw line segments between pairs of points. To be strictly accurate, a straight line (or line for short) in two-dimensional space is not a finite segment, but stretches off to infinity in both directions, and so we need to introduce ways of representing a general point on such a line.
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© 1983 Ian O. Angell and Brian J. Jones
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Angell, I.O., Jones, B.J. (1983). Two-dimensional Coordinate Geometry. In: Advanced Graphics with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06763-3_4
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