TRIANGLE INEQUALITY


Meaning of TRIANGLE INEQUALITY in English

Function: noun

Etymology: from its application to the distances between three points in a coordinate system

Date: 1941

: an inequality stating that the absolute value of a sum is less than or equal to the sum of the absolute values of the terms

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