The Right Distance (Italian: La giusta distanza) is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Mazzacurati. It entered the competition at the second Rome...
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mathematics, the Euclidean distance between two points in Euclidean space is the length of the line segment between them. It can be calculated from the Cartesian...
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Taxicab geometry (redirect from Manhattan distance)
geometry where the familiar Euclidean distance is ignored, and the distance between two points is instead defined to be the sum of the absolute differences...
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The Price Is Right is an American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes. A 1972 revival...
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the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. The Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum...
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List of potentially habitable exoplanets (category Exoplanets in the habitable zone)
Surface planetary habitability is thought to require an orbit at the right distance from the host star for liquid surface water to be present, in addition...
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The great-circle distance, orthodromic distance, or spherical distance is the distance between two points on a sphere, measured along the great-circle...
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plane in between distance and near. Monocular PD refers to the distance between either the right or left visual axis to the bridge of the nose, which may...
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engineering where it is called the "Goldilocks principle". In planetary astronomy, a planet orbiting its sun at just the right distance for liquid water to exist...
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In mathematics, the Hausdorff distance, or Hausdorff metric, also called Pompeiu–Hausdorff distance, measures how far two subsets of a metric space are...
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and statistics, the Hellinger distance (closely related to, although different from, the Bhattacharyya distance) is used to quantify the similarity between...
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The instantaneous Earth–Moon distance, or distance to the Moon, is the distance from the center of Earth to the center of the Moon. Lunar distance (LD...
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D\left(X,Y\right)={\biggl (}\sum _{i=1}^{n}|x_{i}-y_{i}|^{p}{\biggr )}^{\frac {1}{p}}.} For p ≥ 1 , {\displaystyle p\geq 1,} the Minkowski distance is a metric...
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information and the study of open quantum systems, the trace distance T is a metric on the space of density matrices and gives a measure of the distinguishability...
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Distance measures are used in physical cosmology to give a natural notion of the distance between two objects or events in the universe. They are often...
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Chebyshev distance (or Tchebychev distance), maximum metric, or L∞ metric is a metric defined on a real coordinate space where the distance between two...
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In cryptography, unicity distance is the length of an original ciphertext needed to break the cipher by reducing the number of possible spurious keys...
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Cosine similarity (redirect from Cosine distance)
{(A_{1}-A_{2})}{2}},{\frac {(-A_{1}+A_{2})}{2}}\right]^{T}.} When the distance between two unit-length vectors is defined to be the length of their vector difference...
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the right distance from the curb while parking. The devices are fitted low on the body, close to the wheels. As the vehicle approaches the curb, the protruding...
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The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P {\displaystyle P} and a distribution D {\displaystyle D} , introduced by P. C...
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The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a far-right, white nationalist movement. A largely online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in...
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Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth, or the shortest arch length. The formulae in this...
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Striking Distance is a 1993 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis as Pittsburgh Police homicide detective Thomas Hardy. The film co-stars...
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Horizon (redirect from Distance to the horizon)
^{-1}{\frac {R}{R+h}}\,.} The distance s can also be expressed in terms of the line-of-sight distance d; from the second figure at the right, tan γ = d R ; {\displaystyle...
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Kullback–Leibler divergence (redirect from Kullback-Leibler distance)
thus a "distance", it is not actually a metric, which is the most familiar and formal type of distance. In particular, it is not symmetric in the two distributions...
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A long-distance trail (or long-distance footpath, track, way, greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas used for hiking, backpacking...
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Right-wing populism, also called right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric...
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equal, dimension. The population distance correlation coefficient is zero if and only if the random vectors are independent. Thus, distance correlation measures...
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statistics, the Jaro–Winkler similarity is a string metric measuring an edit distance between two sequences. It is a variant of the Jaro distance metric (1989...
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the Bhattacharyya distance is a quantity which represents a notion of similarity between two probability distributions. It is closely related to the Bhattacharyya...
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