EuclideanDistance.java

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package org.apache.commons.math4.neuralnet;

import org.apache.commons.math4.neuralnet.internal.NeuralNetException;

/**
 * Euclidean distance measures of n-dimensional vectors.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public class EuclideanDistance implements DistanceMeasure {
    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public double applyAsDouble(double[] a,
                                double[] b) {
        final int len = a.length;
        if (len != b.length) {
            throw new NeuralNetException(NeuralNetException.SIZE_MISMATCH,
                                         len, b.length);
        }

        double sum = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            final double diff = a[i] - b[i];
            sum += diff * diff;
        }
        return Math.sqrt(sum);
    }
}