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The Minkowski distances are the set of distance metrics with different degree
:math:`(p > 0)` and are widely used for distance computation in different algorithms.
The most commonly used distance metric, Euclidean distance, is also a Minkowski
distance with :math:`p = 2.0`.

.. |c_math| replace::   :ref:`dense <minkowski_distance_c_math>`
.. |c_dense| replace::  :ref:`dense <minkowski_distance_c_math_dense>`

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**Operation**  **Computational  methods**
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|c_math|       |c_dense|
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