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scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski

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

Computes the Minkowski distance between two 1-D arrays.

The Minkowski distance between 1-D arrays u and v, is defined as

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

Parameters:

u : (N,) array_like

Input array.

v : (N,) array_like

Input array.

p : int

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

Returns:

d : double

The Minkowski distance between vectors u and v.