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  2. Distance from a point to a plane - Wikipedia

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    Now the problem has become one of finding the nearest point on this plane to the origin, and its distance from the origin. The point on the plane in terms of the original coordinates can be found from this point using the above relationships between and , between and , and between and ; the distance in terms of the original coordinates is the ...

  3. Euclidean distance - Wikipedia

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    The distance from a point to a plane in three-dimensional Euclidean space [7] The distance between two lines in three-dimensional Euclidean space [8] The distance from a point to a curve can be used to define its parallel curve, another curve all of whose points have the same distance to the given curve. [9]

  4. Geographical distance - Wikipedia

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    The shortest distance between two points in plane is a Cartesian straight line. The Pythagorean theorem is used to calculate the distance between points in a plane. Even over short distances, the accuracy of geographic distance calculations which assume a flat Earth depend on the method by which the latitude and longitude coordinates have been ...

  5. Cartesian coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    In a two-dimensional cartesian plane, identify the point with coordinates (x, y) with the complex number z = x + iy. Here, i is the imaginary unit and is identified with the point with coordinates (0, 1), so it is not the unit vector in the direction of the x-axis. Since the complex numbers can be multiplied giving another complex number, this ...

  6. Closest pair of points problem - Wikipedia

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    The closest pair of points problem or closest pair problem is a problem of computational geometry: given points in metric space, find a pair of points with the smallest distance between them. The closest pair problem for points in the Euclidean plane [ 1 ] was among the first geometric problems that were treated at the origins of the systematic ...

  7. Poincaré half-plane model - Wikipedia

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    The distance between two points in the half-plane model can be computed in terms of Euclidean distances in an isosceles trapezoid formed by the points and their reflection across the x-axis: a "side length" s, a "diagonal" d, and two "heights" h 1 and h 2.

  8. 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

  9. Euclidean planes in three-dimensional space - Wikipedia

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    This proves that all points in the intersection are the same distance from the point E in the plane P, in other words all points in the intersection lie on a circle C with center E. [8] This proves that the intersection of P and S is contained in C. Note that OE is the axis of the circle. Now consider a point D of the circle C. Since C lies in ...