Metric space

Diameter of a set

In a metric space (𝑋,𝑑) the diameter diam(𝑌) of a subset 𝑌 ⊆𝑋 is the supremum of the difference between any two points in 𝑌, #m/def/anal i.e.

diam(𝑌)=sup{𝑑(𝑥,𝑦):𝑥,𝑦∈𝑌}


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