Definition:Chebyshev Distance/Also known as
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Chebyshev Distance: Also known as
The Chebyshev distance is also known as the maximum metric or sup metric.
Another term is the chessboard distance, as it can be illustrated on the real number plane as the number of moves needed by a chess king to travel from one point to the other.
Sources
- 1975: W.A. Sutherland: Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces ... (previous) ... (next): $2$: Continuity generalized: metric spaces: Exercise $2.6: 7$