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Idiom #201 Euclidean norm

Calculate n, the Euclidean norm of data, where data is a list of floating point values.

require 'matrix'
data = Vector[5.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0]
n = data.norm
n = norm2( data )

data may be a multidimensional array (e.g. data(:,:)). n is the Frobenius norm if data is a 2-dimensional array (matrix).

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