Steven D'Aprano schreef: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:59 +0100, Robert Bossy wrote: > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >>> That's what I said in another paragraph. "sum of coordinates" is using >>> a different distance definition; it's the way you measure distance in a >>> city with square blocks. I don't know if the distance itself has a >>> name, but >> I think it is called Manhattan distance in reference of the walking >> distance from one point to another in this city. > > You know, there are other cities than Manhattan. Some of them even have > streets and blocks.
I'm not sure what your point is. The name of the distance happens to be Manhattan distance (or taxicab distance, rectilinear distance, L1 distance, city block distance; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_distance) so Robert has a valid point. -- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
