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Euclidean distance
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conventional distance in mathematics and physics
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Minkowski distance
- Subclass of
- length
- Named after
- Euclid
- Said to be same as
- as the crow flies
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- category theory
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Using the Pythagorean theorem to compute two-dimensional Euclidean distance
In mathematics, the Euclidean distance between two points in a Euclidean space is the length of the line segment between them. It can be calculated from the Cartesian coordinates of the points using the Pythagorean theorem, and therefore is occasionally called the Pythagorean distance.
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