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Origin

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The origin of a coordinate system is the center point or zero point where the axes meet.

In Euclidean Systems

In the Euclidean plane \mathbb{R}^2, the origin is (0,0). Similarly, in the Euclidean space \mathbb{R}^3, the origin is (0,0,0). This way, in general, the origin of an n-dimensional Euclidean space \mathbb{R}^n is the n-tuple (0,0,\ldots,0) with all its n components equal to zero.

Thus, the origin of any coordinate system is the point where all of its components are equal to zero.

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