How can the Euclidean distance be calculated with NumPy?
Asked 07 September, 2021
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I have two points in 3D:

(xa, ya, za)
(xb, yb, zb)

And I want to calculate the distance:

dist = sqrt((xa-xb)^2 + (ya-yb)^2 + (za-zb)^2)

What's the best way to do this with NumPy, or with Python in general? I have:

import numpy
a = numpy.array((xa ,ya, za))
b = numpy.array((xb, yb, zb))

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