Problem 116. Distance walked 2D

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Suppose you go from x-y coordinates [3,4] to [0,0] to [0,1] to [1,1], then you walked 7 units of distance.

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Trung Duong on 8 Feb 2012

better to describe input size: xy 4-by-2, each row is the xy-coordinate of a point

David Young on 6 Mar 2012

Needs a richer test suite. A lot of "solvers" have just put a=7 as the "solution", but although this satisfies the single test case, it doesn't solve the problem as stated.

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