Minkowski distance

Not to be confused with the pseudo-Euclidean metric of the Minkowski space.

The Minkowski distance or Minkowski metric is a metric in a normed vector space which can be considered as a generalization of both the Euclidean distance and the Manhattan distance. It is named after the mathematician Hermann Minkowski.

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