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A Geometric Duality for Two Metrics for the Co-Ordinate Plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Frank Rhodes ,
David Cox ,
Patricia Dixon  and
John Fever
Frank Rhodes
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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who arrived at the result through discussions in an undergraduate class at the University of Southampton.

Of the various metrics which can be placed on the co-ordinate plane R×R, the Euclidean metric is universally known, and two others are becoming more widely known in schools. With the co-ordinate notation for points x = (x1, x2), these metrics are

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 54 , Issue 387 , February 1970 , pp. 19 - 23
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1970

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