Defines a metric on a set by nonnegativity, vanishing exactly on the diagonal, symmetry and the triangle inequality, and a metric space as a set with a metric.
In the setting of The Real Numbers, with the Natural Numbers, Integers and Rationals Identified with Subsets of the Reals, and Completeness, let be a set and let be a map.
is a metric on if for all the conditions nonnegative, zero, symmetric and triangle below hold.
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if and only if .
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If is a metric on , the pair is a metric space, and the elements of are its points.
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