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vector problem I'm not sure how to express

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• Subject: [mg49084] vector problem I'm not sure how to express
• From: "AngleWyrm" <no_spam_anglewyrm at hotmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:34:29 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have two 5d vectors of equal length, a current and a target. The coordinates
are integer values, and the problem is to transform the one towards the other by
incrementing. This seems like a dot-product kind of problem, and knowing they
will always be the same length should simplify things.

Currently, I'm subtracting 1 from the coordinate with the largest difference,
and then adding 1 to the coordinate with the smallest difference. This is sort
of an approximation of the arc between them?

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