City Block Distance

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It is also known as Manhattan distance, boxcar distance, absolute value distance. It represents distance between points in a city road grid. It examines the absolute differences between coordinates of a pair of objects.

Formula:

For example:

Point A has coordinate (0, 3, 4, 5) and point B has coordinate (7, 6, 3, -1).

The City Block Distance between point A and B is

City block distance is a special case of Minkowski distance with

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