How to calculate the euclidean distance in matlab?
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    Avinash Bhatt
 on 26 May 2019
  
    
    
    
    
    Edited: KALYAN ACHARJYA
      
      
 on 26 May 2019
            I have coordinates as
pix_cor=[2 1;2 2; 2 3]
I want to calculate the eucledian distance between 
1)     (2,1) and (2,1);
2)     (2,1) and (2 2);
3)     (2,1) and (2,3);
Simarlarily
4)     (2,2) and (2,1);
5)     (2,2) and (2 2);
6)     (2,2) and (2,3);
and
7)     (2,3) and (2,1);
8)     (2,3) and (2 2);
9)     (2,3) and (2,3);
The formulae is (x2-x1)^2+(y2-Y1)^2
The result will be h=[0 1 1;1 0 1;4 1 0]
Please help me achieving this in matlab
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  KALYAN ACHARJYA
      
      
 on 26 May 2019
        
      Edited: KALYAN ACHARJYA
      
      
 on 26 May 2019
  
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x=[2,1]; 
y=[2,1];
D=sqrt((y(1)-x(1))^2+(y(2)-x(2))^2);
Result:
D =
     0
     So on.......% do the same for others 
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  KALYAN ACHARJYA
      
      
 on 26 May 2019
				
      Edited: KALYAN ACHARJYA
      
      
 on 26 May 2019
  
			Yes my bad, please read the answer by @John you are right. 
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  John D'Errico
      
      
 on 26 May 2019
        Actually, that is simply NOT the formula for Euclidean distance. You need to take the square root to get the distance. So, you showed the formula for the square of the distance.
pix_cor=[2 1;2 2; 2 3];
x = pix_cor(:,1);
y = pix_cor(:,2);
Now, what does MATLAB do if you form differences like these?
x - x'
and 
y - y'
TRY IT! Learn to use MATLAB!
So the trick is to square those matrices, then add the results, then take the square root. Like this:
dist_E = sqrt((x - x').^2 + (y - y').^2)
dist_E =
     0     1     2
     1     0     1
     2     1     0
As I said, the Euclidean distance NEEDS a square root though. It you don't believe me, then do some reading here:
The above line of code does require MATLAB release R2016b. With an older release, you would use bsxfun.
dist_E = sqrt(bsxfun(@minus,x,x').^2 + bsxfun(@minus,y,y').^2);
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