zmVault/timestamped/2026-04-16_14-26-45.md

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id	title	tags	date-created	daily
2026-04-16T14:26:45-0400	2026-04-16 14:26:45	status/draft	2026-04-16T14:26:45-04:00	2026-04-16

2026-04-16 14:26:45

Distance Between Two Points

=LET(minorDif,MIN([@[top-dif]],[@[left-dif]]),
majorDif,MAX([@[top-dif]],[@[left-dif]]),
SQRT(2*minorDif^2)+(majorDif-minorDif)
)

import math

x_dif = math.abs(x2 - x1)
y_dif = math.abs(y2 - y1)

ortholinear_distance = x_dif + y_dif

minor_dif = min(y_dif, x_dif)
major_dif = max(y_dif, x_dif)

octolinear_distance = math.sqrt(2 * minor_dif^2) + (majorDif - minorDif)