Hausdorff distance

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Hausdorff distance by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For nonempty bounded subsets of a metric space,
This is a metric on the nonempty closed bounded subsets. Without closedness it is only a pseudometric: a set and its closure have distance zero.
The Hausdorff distance is a measure of the extent to which two subsets of a metric space differ from each other.

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