By Frank Nielsen
Communications of the ACM,
November 2009,
Vol. 52 No. 11, Pages 150-152
10.1145/1592761.1592796
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The concept of distance expresses the distortion measure between any pair of entities lying in a common space. Distances are at the very heart of geometry, and are ubiquitous in science, needless to say in computational science.
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