Hausdorff metric

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Hausdorff metric (plural Hausdorff metrics)

(analysis) In the abstract metric space of all compact subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ , given a pair of compact sets A and B, the Hausdorff metric is $h(A,B) = \mbox{max} \{\rho(A,B), \rho(B,A)\}$ where $\rho(A,B) = \sup_{a\in A} \inf_{b\in B} \, d(a,b)$ , where d is the Euclidean metric in $\mathbb{R}^n$ .
h(A,B) = 0 iff A = B