John (>): > I'm still in the dark... I find an positions for "manhattan distance" but no > definition of what that is. I did find the alternative pod page earlier.
I don't have a whole answer for you, but a part that may help. What is generally meant by "Manhattan distance" is so-called L1 distance, i.e. Pythagoras' distance summation formula but without all the squaring and surding. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry> I imagine the concept is applied to parameter types in the discussion in question. // Carl