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+/*    This file is part of the Gudhi Library. The Gudhi library 
+ *    (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) is a generic C++ 
+ *    library for computational topology.
+ *
+ *    Author(s):       Clément Maria
+ *
+ *    Copyright (C) 2014  INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée (France)
+ *
+ *    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *    (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *    GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef DISTANCE_FUNCTIONS_H_
+#define DISTANCE_FUNCTIONS_H_
+
+#include <cmath>  // for std::sqrt
+
+/* Compute the Euclidean distance between two Points given
+ * by a range of coordinates. The points are assumed to have 
+ * the same dimension. */
+template< typename Point >
+double euclidean_distance(Point &p1, Point &p2) {
+  double dist = 0.;
+  auto it1 = p1.begin();
+  auto it2 = p2.begin();
+  for (; it1 != p1.end(); ++it1, ++it2) {
+    double tmp = *it1 - *it2;
+    dist += tmp*tmp;
+  }
+  return std::sqrt(dist);
+}
+
+#endif  // DISTANCE_FUNCTIONS_H_