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- <refpurpose>Returns the distance between two points. For point / point checks it's exact. For other geometry types
- the distance between the bounding box centroids is returned. Useful for doing distance ordering and nearest neighbor limits
+ <refpurpose>Returns the distance between two points. For point / point checks it uses floating point accuracy (as opposed to the double precision accuracy of the underlying point geometry). For other geometry types
+ the distance between the floating point bounding box centroids is returned. Useful for doing distance ordering and nearest neighbor limits
using KNN gist functionality.</refpurpose>
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