Abstract
In more elementary courses you have already studied the number line, and so you already know that once a unit length is selected, we can represent points on a line by numbers. In Figure 2.1 we have drawn such a line and a few points.
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Lang, S., Murrow, G. (1983). Coordinates. In: Geometry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1797-6_2
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