From: wolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:46:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Augment documentation.
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4296c0b94ab81a82959c44b76497ccc8f95906b0;p=dealii-svn.git

Augment documentation.


git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@9704 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
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diff --git a/deal.II/base/include/base/point.h b/deal.II/base/include/base/point.h
index dba7de6ded..3e8bf6b8d3 100644
--- a/deal.II/base/include/base/point.h
+++ b/deal.II/base/include/base/point.h
@@ -155,8 +155,11 @@ class Point : public Tensor<1,dim>
     double              square () const;
     
 				     /**
-				      * Returns the distance of <tt>this</tt> 
-				      * point to the point <tt>p</tt>.
+				      * Returns the Euclidian distance of
+				      * <tt>this</tt> point to the point
+				      * <tt>p</tt>, i.e. the <tt>l_2</tt> norm
+				      * of the difference between the vectors
+				      * representing the two points.
 				      */
     double distance (const Point<dim> &p) const;