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14.12.8  The length squared of a segment in space: distance2

See Section 13.14.3 for squares of lengths in two-dimensional geometry.

The distance2 command finds the square of the distance between two points.


Example.
Input:

distance2(point(-1,1,1),point(1,1,1))

or:

distance2([-1,1,1],[1,1,1])

Output:

4

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