A Point on the Way, Measured Two Ways

Norms & DistanceMedium+20 XP+20

In a 2-D feature space, $P = (1,\ 2)$ and $Q = (7,\ 10)$ .

A point $R$ lies on the straight segment from $P$ to $Q$ , at Euclidean distance $2.5$ from $P$ .

What is the Manhattan (L1) distance from $R$ to $Q$ ?

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Bird's Flight vs. Taxi Route

Two ways to measure the distance between the same two points on a city grid.

A bird flies straight from A to B: distance = 7.62 blocks. This is Euclidean distance.