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# scipy.spatial.minkowski_distance_p

`scipy.spatial.``minkowski_distance_p`(x, y, p=2)

  Compute the p-th power of the L**p distance between two arrays.

  For efficiency, this function computes the L**p distance but does not extract the pth root. If p is 1 or infinity, this is equal to the actual L**p distance.

  Parameters : | x : (M, K) array_like Input array. y : (N, K) array_like Input array. p : float, 1 <= p <= infinity Which Minkowski p-norm to use.

  Examples

      >>> minkowski_distance_p([[0,0],[0,0]], [[1,1],[0,1]])
      array([2, 1])

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