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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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    In mathematics, the Euclidean distance between two points in 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 .

  4. Unit distance graph - Wikipedia

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    A unit distance graph with 16 vertices and 40 edges. In mathematics, particularly geometric graph theory, a unit distance graph is a graph formed from a collection of points in the Euclidean plane by connecting two points whenever the distance between them is exactly one.

  5. Line (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    By extension, k points in a plane are collinear if and only if any (k–1) pairs of points have the same pairwise slopes. 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]

  6. Distance - Wikipedia

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    The distance between two points in physical space is the length of a straight line between them, which is the shortest possible path. This is the usual meaning of distance in classical physics, including Newtonian mechanics.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Magnitude (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In vector spaces, the Euclidean norm is a measure of magnitude used to define a distance between two points in space. In physics, magnitude can be defined as quantity or distance. An order of magnitude is typically defined as a unit of distance between one number and another's numerical places on the decimal scale.

  9. 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