metric function
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mathematical function that defines a distance between elements of a set
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- symmetric function
- Part of
- metric space
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- has characteristic
- subadditivity
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- invariant under
- isometry
- topic's main category
- Category:Metric geometry
- Commons category
- Metric geometry
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Encyclopedic overview
The plane (a set of points) can be equipped with different metrics. In the taxicab metric the red, yellow and blue paths have the same length (12), and are all shortest paths. In the Euclidean metric, the green path has length
6
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