Recent content by ScottB

Haha, that's great. It's funny what will get you through, isn't it?

Does anyone know if it would be impolite to knock on a random math professor's door during his or her office hours, introduce myself and ask them for help on this? I feel that taking my research problems to strangers is a bit impudent, but I am running out of sources of help. Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the insight! Yes, I didn't recall the mathematical use of the term 'metric'. That lead me to existing distance metrics, though as was expected none of these were what I was looking for exactly. So I need a method to evaluate the distance between two (really four?) functions of...

0. Background I am a Doctoral student studying Geographic Information Science. I do a good bit of programming during the course of my work. Recently, I happened upon a problem which I cannot solve on my own (my post-calc math comfort zone is mostly in procedure and repetition, not in...