snowflake.snowpark.functions.vector_l2_distance¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.vector_l2_distance(v1: Union[Column, str], v2: Union[Column, str]) → Column[source] (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/v1.47.0/src/snowflake/snowpark/functions.py#L7895-L7914)¶

Returns the l2 distance between two vectors of equal dimension and element type.

Example::

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>>> from snowflake.snowpark.functions import vector_l2_distance
>>> df = session.sql("select [1,2,3]::vector(int,3) as a, [2,3,4]::vector(int,3) as b")
>>> df.select(vector_l2_distance(df.a, df.b).as_("dist")).show()
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|"DIST"              |
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|1.7320508075688772  |
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