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  2. Euclidean distance - Wikipedia

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    That is (unlike road distance with one-way streets) the distance between two points does not depend on which of the two points is the start and which is the destination. [11] It is positive, meaning that the distance between every two distinct points is a positive number, while the distance from any point to itself is zero. [11]

  3. Distance - Wikipedia

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    The distance between sets A and B is the infimum of the distances between any two of their respective points: (,) =, (,). This does not define a metric on the set of such subsets: the distance between overlapping sets is zero, and this distance does not satisfy the triangle inequality for any metric space with two or more points (consider the ...

  4. Distance between two parallel lines - Wikipedia

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    the distance between the two lines is the distance between the two intersection points of these lines with the perpendicular line = /. This distance can be found by first solving the linear systems {= + = /, and {= + = /, to get the coordinates of the intersection points. The solutions to the linear systems are the points

  5. Distance from a point to a line - Wikipedia

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    The distance (or perpendicular distance) from a point to a line is the shortest distance from a fixed point to any point on a fixed infinite line in Euclidean geometry. It is the length of the line segment which joins the point to the line and is perpendicular to the line. The formula for calculating it can be derived and expressed in several ways.

  6. Cartesian coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    Distance between two points. The Euclidean distance between two points of the plane with Cartesian coordinates (,) and (,) is = + (). This is the ...

  7. Mean line segment length - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, the mean line segment length is the average length of a line segment connecting two points chosen uniformly at random in a given shape. In other words, it is the expected Euclidean distance between two random points, where each point in the shape is equally likely to be chosen.

  8. Vincenty's formulae - Wikipedia

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    Vincenty's formulae are two related iterative methods used in geodesy to calculate the distance between two points on the surface of a spheroid, developed by Thaddeus Vincenty (1975a). They are based on the assumption that the figure of the Earth is an oblate spheroid, and hence are more accurate than methods that assume a spherical Earth, such ...

  9. Line (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In Euclidean geometry, the Euclidean distance d(a,b) between two points a and b may be used to express the collinearity between three points by: [3] [4] The points a , b and c are collinear if and only if d ( x , a ) = d ( c , a ) and d ( x , b ) = d ( c , b ) implies x = c .