Major Bug in vtkMath::Distance2BetweenPoints

[Bill Lorensen]

<x-flowed>Ben,
That method computes the square of the distance between two points as 
stated in the man page.
http://vtk.scorec.rpi.edu/Nightly/Doc/manhtml/vtkMath.html#method13

This is for efficiency, since many uses of this value work with the squared 
distance.

Bill

At 08:58 AM 7/28/99 -0500, Ben Held wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have discovered a major bug in vtkMath::Distance2BetweenPoints.  The
>return value needs to be passed through sqrt.
>Please make note of this so it can be fixed in 3.0.
>
>Ben
>
>John
>Ben L. Held
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