FAQ: Distance Formula - SciPy Distances

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This community-built FAQ covers the “SciPy Distances” exercise from the lesson “Distance Formula”.

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FAQs on the exercise SciPy Distances

• In this exercise, we learn that SciPy's implementation of the Hamming distance differs from the one presented earlier in the lessons by dividing by the number of dimensions. Should we use one implementation over the other or do they have different applications?

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Hello, I am a complete beginner here and I find it extremely difficult to understand the terms that use in the tasks and how does the formula works.

For instance, it says “Call” under the instruction and I find out that it means to write another code of “print” which is confusing for a beginner like me.
Also, there isn’t a guide of how the formula for all three distance formulas. Can anyone please help?