Dec 15, 2024
Shortest distance between lines
[Click here for a PDF version of this post] Motivation. Having just worked one of Karl’s problems for the distance between two parallel planes, I recalled that when I was in high school, I had trouble with the intuition for the problem of shortest distance between two lines. In this post, I’ll revisit that ancient trouble and finally come to terms with it. Distance from origin to a line. Before…
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