It is an ordered pair (or triplet), which defines the distances of any point in 2 (or 3) dimensional space from a fixed point, called the origin, and along an orthogonal set of axes which cross at the origin.
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The Cartesian Coordinate System was discovered by Rene Descartes.
The cartesian coordinates are plotted on the cartesian plane
cartesian coordinate isn't a system. the graphs you put on the cartesian coordinate plane can be systems. these graphs can be anything you want them to be. and they are calculate different every time. the thing to remember about cartesian coordinate planes is the you plot the points of (x,y)
The z axis in the vertical axis in the Cartesian Coordinate System.
It was the French mathematician Rene Descartes who devised the Cartesian coordinate system