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Discrete metric

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The discrete metric is a metric d which can be defined on any set S, d: S\times S \to \{0, 1\} as follows: if x = y, d(x, y) = 0 and if x \neq y, d(x, y) = 1. All three conditions on a metric (symmetry, positivity and the validity of the triangle inequality) are immediately clear from the definition.


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