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Manhattan metric

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Aka "taxicab metric"..

A special kind of metric or norm:

Manhattan norm.jpg

To find the distance between the vectors go along the grid $$‖X - Y‖ = |X_1-Y_1|+|X_2-Y_2|.$$

Its circle is the square...