​why is the numbering of quadriants anticlockwise and not clockwise

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The positive direction is counterclockwise or anticlockwiseThe quadrant numbering increases in the counterclockwise direction,So  do themeasures of angles.Start on the x axis.Moving into quadrant I,then II,III then IV is moving in the positive direction

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I think it is because that "x" axis comes first in an ordered pair so that x has to be negative first and the y coordinate has to be second. 
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