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Noun Concept
Categories: Digital geometry, Mathematical chess problems, Metric geometry, Similarity and distance measures, Distance
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taxicab geometry  1 norm  block distance  City-block metric  city block distance
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A taxicab geometry or a Manhattan geometry is a geometry whose usual distance function or metric of Euclidean geometry is replaced by a new metric in which the distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences of their Cartesian coordinates. Wikipedia
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A taxicab geometry or a Manhattan geometry is a geometry whose usual distance function or metric of Euclidean geometry is replaced by a new metric in which the distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences of their Cartesian coordinates. Wikipedia
Type of metric geometry Wikidata
A non-Euclidean geometry in which the distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences between their corresponding coordinates. Wiktionary
Type of geometry. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
metric function
Minkowski distance
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Minkowski
NAMED AFTER
cab
Minkowski
Manhattan
STUDIED BY
category theory
Wikipedia
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taxicab geometry
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taxicab geometry
Wiktionary
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taxicab geometry
Wikipedia Redirections
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1 norm, block distance, City-block metric, city block distance, City block norm, L1-distance, L1 distance, L1 metric, Manhattan distance, Manhattan distance formula, Manhattan distance function, Manhattan geometry, Manhattan length, Manhattan metric, Manhattan norm, Manhattan shape, Manhattan shapes, Manhattan units, One norm, rectilinear distance, Taxi cab metric, Taxi metric, taxicab distance, Taxicab Geometry, taxicab metric, taxicab norm
Wikidata Alias
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city block distance, Manhattan distance, Manhattan length, Minkowski's L1 distance, rectilinear distance, taxi cab metric, taxicab length

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