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minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-25 months ago As the other guy said, you cannot have imaginary distances. Incorrect. There are complex valued metric spaces And even if we assume real valued metrics, then i usually represents the unit vector (0,1) which has distance real 1.
minus-squareSteve Dice@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThat’s NOT a metric. That’s a measure. Two wholly different things.
minus-squareSteve Dice@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThat’s more related to a metric but it still can’t be complex valued and it’s still not a measure.
Incorrect. There are complex valued metric spaces
And even if we assume real valued metrics, then i usually represents the unit vector (0,1) which has distance real 1.
That’s NOT a metric. That’s a measure. Two wholly different things.
It can be a pseudometric
That’s more related to a metric but it still can’t be complex valued and it’s still not a measure.