scipy.spatial.distance.cityblock¶
- scipy.spatial.distance.cityblock(u, v)[source]¶
Computes the City Block (Manhattan) distance.
Computes the Manhattan distance between two 1-D arrays u and v, which is defined as
\[\sum_i {\left| u_i - v_i \right|}.\]Parameters: u : (N,) array_like
Input array.
v : (N,) array_like
Input array.
Returns: cityblock : double
The City Block (Manhattan) distance between vectors u and v.