Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by empath-nirvana 942 days ago
> Also, just to point out that my understanding of absolute value is different than your sons. Thats not to say one is right and another is wrong, but there are often different ways of seeing the same thing.

There is definitely a right and wrong answer for this, it's not a matter of opinion. There's two problems with your answer -- one is that it doesn't have a unique answer, the other is that it doesn't produce a real value, both of which are fairly core to the concept of a distance (or magnitude or norm), which the absolute value is an example of.