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<h2>Name</h2>

<p>distance — calculate the distance between two points</p>

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<h2>Declaration</h2>

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<code class="funcdef">float <strong class="fsfunc">distance</strong>(</code>

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<td>genType <var class="pdparam">p0</var>, </td>

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<td>genType <var class="pdparam">p1</var><code>)</code>;</td>

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<h2>Parameters</h2>

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<code>p0</code>

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Specifies the first of two points

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<code>p1</code>

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Specifies the second of two points

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<h2>Description</h2>

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<code class="function">distance</code> returns the distance between the two points <em class="parameter"><code>p0</code></em> and <em class="parameter"><code>p1</code></em>. i.e.,

<code class="code">length(<em class="parameter"><code>p0</code></em> - <em class="parameter"><code>p1</code></em>);</code>

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<h2>Version Support</h2>

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<span class="bold"><strong>OpenGL ES Shading Language Version</strong></span>

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<span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span>

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<span class="bold"><strong>3.00</strong></span>

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<span class="bold"><strong>3.10</strong></span>

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<td style="text-align: left; border-right: 2px solid ; ">distance (genType)</td>

<td style="text-align: center; border-right: 2px solid ; ">✔</td>

<td style="text-align: center; border-right: 2px solid ; ">✔</td>

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<h2>See Also</h2>

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<a class="citerefentry" href="length"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">length</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="normalize"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">normalize</span></span></a>

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<h2>Copyright</h2>

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Copyright <span class="trademark"/>© 2011-2014 Khronos Group.

This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in

the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.

<a class="link" href="http://opencontent.org/openpub/" target="_top">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</a>.

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