Re: [spoon-discuss] No, I haven't really forgotten...

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday 20 April 2003 10:23 pm, David E. Smith wrote:
> Someone made a guess in the Number Game a while back -- Orc, maybe? -- but
> I still can't figure out how to respond. No, really, I'm not sure what the
> hell a 'distance in five-dimensional space' or whatever that rule asks
> for, is.
>
> Someone's gonna have to explain it to me in terms a five-year-old can
> understand.
>
> ...dave

Ok:
Given coordinates of point 1 (a,b,c,d,e) and of point 2 (a',b',c',d',e'), the 
distance is:
((a'-a) ** 2 + (b'-b) ** 2 + (c'-c) ** 2 + (d'-d) ** 2 + (e'-e) ** 2) ** .5

- -- 
bd
A demagogia é a capacidade de vestir as idéias menores com as
palavras maiores.
                -- Abraham Lincoln
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