okay so is there a multidimensional pythagorean theorem for coming up with a scalar distance between any two genders?

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@starkatt yes, the pythagorean theorem extends easily to arbitrarily many dimensions

it's just the RMS of all the orthogonal measurements.

@starkatt Not RMS. The other thing. Just the root sum square.

@Felthry right. The trick is figuring out the axes of the coordinate system.

@starkatt they only need to be orthogonal, so you can just pick an arbitrary one and use the Gram-Schmidt process

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