city block (3)

>Thanks, Paul H., for explaining this. Take note, Manuel (I do feel
>strongly that this improves upon Tenney's and Barlow's formulations,
>especially in the typical case where factors of two are ignored...

Sorry, Paul, but I've had some problems following this thread. Did you
mean that weighting improved the city block metrics, or did you mean that
city block metrics are better on a triangular lattice than on a square one?

If the latter, could you explain why?

C.