scipy.spatial.distance.sqeuclidean¶

scipy.spatial.distance.sqeuclidean(u, v)[source]¶

Computes the squared Euclidean distance between two n-vectors u and v, which is defined as

${||u-v||}_2^2.$

Parameters :

u : ndarray

An $n$ -dimensional vector.

v : ndarray

An $n$ -dimensional vector.

Returns :

d : double

The squared Euclidean distance between vectors u and v.

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