Dear Tamara, and Lacemakers, > > On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 22:47 US/Eastern, Ruth Budge wrote, in > response to Linda Walton's: > >> trouble remembering which were the x and y axes when drawing a graph > >> - until > >> someone explained to me that "x is a-cross". > > OK, I'm *still* clueless... :) A cross goes both north-south and > east-west (up-down and left-right. Or vice versa; don't try to get me > any more confused than I already am <g>). An X (which I do recognize as > denoting a cross), *still* goes in *four* directions, if askew... So, > how does it help for drawings, to know that a cross is also an X? >
I'm sorry - I should have made this more clear. It's a play on words:- although it does mean that "X" is cross-shaped, it also means that the x-axis goes across (that is, the y-axis goes up-and-down). Hope that helps. It's difficult for me to explain these things without waving my hands about, or drawing a picture. Yours sincerely, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where we've woken up to yet another morning of Autumn fog). To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
