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  2. Distance between two parallel lines - Wikipedia

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    the distance between the two lines is the distance between the two intersection points of these lines with the perpendicular line y = − x / m . {\displaystyle y=-x/m\,.} This distance can be found by first solving the linear systems

  3. Distance from a point to a line - Wikipedia

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    The distance (or perpendicular distance) from a point to a line is the shortest distance from a fixed point to any point on a fixed infinite line in Euclidean geometry. It is the length of the line segment which joins the point to the line and is perpendicular to the line. The formula for calculating it can be derived and expressed in several ways.

  4. Perpendicular distance - Wikipedia

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    Nearest distance between skew lines, for the perpendicular distance between two non-parallel lines in three-dimensional space; Perpendicular regression fits a line to data points by minimizing the sum of squared perpendicular distances from the data points to the line. Other geometric curve fitting methods using perpendicular distance to ...

  5. Parallel (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    the distance between the two lines can be found by locating two points (one on each line) that lie on a common perpendicular to the parallel lines and calculating the distance between them. Since the lines have slope m , a common perpendicular would have slope −1/ m and we can take the line with equation y = − x / m as a common perpendicular.

  6. Perpendicular - Wikipedia

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    Nearest distance between skew lines, for the perpendicular distance between two non-parallel lines in three-dimensional space Perpendicular regression fits a line to data points by minimizing the sum of squared perpendicular distances from the data points to the line.

  7. Clifford parallel - Wikipedia

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    In elliptic geometry, two lines are Clifford parallel or paratactic lines if the perpendicular distance between them is constant from point to point. The concept was first studied by William Kingdon Clifford in elliptic space and appears only in spaces of at least three dimensions.

  8. Line–line intersection - Wikipedia

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    PQ, the shortest distance between two skew lines AB and CD is perpendicular to both AB and CD Main article: Skew lines § Nearest points In two or more dimensions, we can usually find a point that is mutually closest to two or more lines in a least-squares sense.

  9. Curve of constant width - Wikipedia

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    Measuring the width of a Reuleaux triangle as the distance between parallel supporting lines. Because this distance does not depend on the direction of the lines, the Reuleaux triangle is a curve of constant width. In geometry, a curve of constant width is a simple closed curve in the plane whose width (the distance between parallel supporting ...