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The shortest distance is displacement and total distance is length.

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What is distance distance between two points?

In plane geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a line. In spherical geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a segment of a great circle. The distance between one point and another is known as the displacement.


What is the distance between two points?

In plane geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a line. In spherical geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a segment of a great circle. The distance between one point and another is known as the displacement.


Why is the shortest distance between 2 points a straight line?

When you curve the line you are travelling you are no longer going directly from one point to the other. If you want to go from one point to another you would want to go directly to the second point.


When measuring one point to another what are you measuring?

When measuring one point to another point you are measuring distance.


What is the purpose of the great circle sailing?

The purpose of sailing from one point to another by way of the great circle is that it's the shortest distance between them, and therefore takes the least time.


Distance from one point to another?

displacment


This is the measured value from one point to another?

DISTANCE!!!!


What is the ability to perform a task or move from one point to another in the shortest possible time?

speed


The distance from one point to another?

It depends on the route that you take. There is nothing in the question to suggest that the distance of interest is the shortest distance. In real life, the quickest route is not necessarily the shortest since travelling on highways may be faster even if longer. In such cases the relevant distance may not be the shortest. Also, you might wish to take the "scenic" route. In any built-up area the shortest meaningful distance between two points will not be "as the crow flies": the taxicab metric (for example 3 blocks East and 4 blocks North), which was developed by Minkowsky, is more appropriate. On the surface of a sphere, such as the Earth, the shortest distance is an arc of the great circle. In most cases this is not the straight line on a map.


What is the positive number that tells you how far one point is from another point?

It is called the distance between the points. A common one is the Pythagorean distance but there are many other measures.


What unit measures the shortest distance?

The shortest SI unit of length is a yoctometre - there are 1000000000000000000000000 of them in one metre.


What is the shortest distance to travel to Mexico?

About one foot, if you are on the border.