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Why do the quadrants in coordinate plane go anti-clockwise?.
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Why do the quadrants in coordinate plane go anti-clockwise?.

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Quadrants are counter-clockwise because angles are measured counter-clockwise; and angles are measured counter-clockwise so that Cross Product of unit vector in X direction with that in the Y direction has to be the unit vector in the Z direction (coming towards us from the origin).

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