taxidistance
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[edit]taxidistance (countable and uncountable, plural taxidistances)
- (geometry) Alternative form of taxicab distance
- 1970 March, F Papy, G Papy, “Taximetry”, in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science, volume 1, number 4:
- Taxidistance is greater than Euclidean Distance.
- 1992, Raffaella Borasi, Learning mathematics through inquiry, page 86:
- Although she was still ready to support her previous result — that her diamond represented all the points at the same taxidistance from the center point — she also began to realize that this figure did not satisfy many of the other properties of circles.
- 1997, HRW geometry: explore, communicate, apply. Teaching transparencies directory, →ISBN:
- Help the students understand that there are multiple pathways between two points which have the minimum taxidistance.