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  2. Skew lines - Wikipedia

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    The nearest points and form the shortest line segment joining Line 1 and Line 2: d = ‖ c 1 − c 2 ‖ . {\displaystyle d=\Vert \mathbf {c_{1}} -\mathbf {c_{2}} \Vert .} The distance between nearest points in two skew lines may also be expressed using other vectors:

  3. 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.

  4. File:Skew lines shortest distance.svg - Wikipedia

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    PQ, the shortest distance between two skew lines AB and CD is perpendicular to both AB and CD, illustrated by CMG Lee. Width: 100%: Height: 100%

  5. Line–line intersection - Wikipedia

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    PQ, the shortest distance between two skew lines AB and CD is perpendicular to both AB and CD Main article: Skew lines § Nearest points In two or more dimensions, we can usually find a point that is mutually closest to two or more lines in a least-squares sense.

  6. Descriptive geometry - Wikipedia

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    The perpendicular distance d gives the shortest distance between PR and SU. To get points Q and T on these lines giving this shortest distance, projection 5 is drawn with hinge line H 4,5 parallel to P 4 R 4, making both P 5 R 5 and S 5 U 5 true views (any projection of an end view is a true view).

  7. Petersen–Morley theorem - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, the Petersen–Morley theorem states that, if a, b, c are three general skew lines in space, if a ′, b ′, c ′ are the lines of shortest distance respectively for the pairs (b,c), (c,a) and (a,b), and if p, q and r are the lines of shortest distance respectively for the pairs (a,a ′), (b,b ′) and (c,c ′), then there is a single line meeting at right angles all of p, q ...

  8. ‘Like going to the moon’: Why this is the world’s most ...

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    At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the planet as a whole, less so.

  9. Digon - Wikipedia

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    A second visual representation, infinite in size, is as two parallel lines stretching to (and projectively meeting at; i.e. having vertices at) infinity, arising when the shortest distance between the two edges is greater than zero.