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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by sriku on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:59AM (#24391019)
The alternative "Euclidean distance" is already half way there and is better since we at least know it's about "distance". At this point, offering any alternative will feel alien and unfamiliar, but "Linear distance" works for me if I feel the need to push Euclid out as well.

edit: If I want to talk about distance in a curved space, we already have a well named "Geodesic distance".

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by diffeomorphism on Sunday September 06, 2020 @12:23PM (#24392429)
That sounds like a different theorem. While it conincides with sums of squares of distances for the Euclidean setting, for the case of a sphere or other manifold it is decidedly about triangles, not so much distances.
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