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RE: Distance between to points in r^3

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  • Subject: [mg41578] RE: [mg41576] Distance between to points in r^3
  • From: "Florian Jaccard" <jaccardf at eicn.ch>
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 05:25:27 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

create a finction :

dist[a_,b_]:=Sqrt[(a-b).(a-b)]
Then, use :
dist[{3,4,5},{6,7,8}]

Meilleures salutations

Florian Jaccard


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Ronny Mandal [mailto:ronnyma at math.uio.no]
Envoyé : mar., 27. mai 2003 07:48
À : mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Objet : [mg41576] Distance between to points in r^3


 Hi.

 Assume that I've got to vectors  (3,4,5) and (6,7,8).How do I
 calculate the distance between them?

 Thanks in advance.

 Ronny M


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