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Re:Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found by def-lkb on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:22PM (#17753740)
> spaces whose distance measures obey the triangle inequality

That would be a metric space, and a distance obey the triangle inequality by definition. The element of the space are otherwise quite arbitrary.

Unfortunately, Normed spaces are a subset of metric spaces which are much less general (in particular they have to be vector spaces).

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Re:Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found by macleginn on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:04PM (#17759696)
You are right, I wantonly omitted some of the important properties. Cf. the response of one of the authors in another comment on how their method tackles general metric spaces.
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