public double distance(SparseVector a, SparseVector b) { // double ret = a.dotProduct (b) / // Math.sqrt (a.dotProduct (a) * b.dotProduct (b)); // gmann : twoNorm() more efficient than a.dotProduct(a) double ret = a.dotProduct(b) / (a.twoNorm() * b.twoNorm()); return 1.0 - ret; }