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scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski¶

scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski(u, v, p)¶

Computes the Minkowski distance between two vectors u and v, defined as

${||u-v||}_p = (\sum{|u_i - v_i|^p})^{1/p}.$

Parameters :

u : ndarray

An n-dimensional vector.

v : ndarray

An n-dimensional vector.

p : int

The order of the norm of the difference ${||u-v||}_p$ .

Returns :

d : double

The Minkowski distance between vectors u and v.